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<p><b>3.</b> <def>To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (<i>to</i>); <as>as, the testimony <ex>amounts</ex> to very little</as>.</def>

<h1>Amount</h1> <Xpage=49>

<hw>A*mount"</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To signify; to amount to.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Amount</h1> <Xpage=49>

<hw>A*mount"</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The sum total of two or more sums or quantities; the aggregate; the whole quantity; a totality; <as>as, the <ex>amount</ex> of 7 and 9 is 16; the <ex>amount</ex> of a bill; the <ex>amount</ex> of this year's revenue.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The effect, substance, value, significance, or result; the sum; <as>as, the <ex>amount</ex> of the testimony is this</as>.</def>

<blockquote>The whole <b>amount</b> of that enormous fame. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Amour</h1> <Xpage=49>

<hw>A*mour"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., fr. L. <ets>amor</ets> love.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Love; affection.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Love making; a love affair; usually, an unlawful connection in love; a love intrigue; an illicit love affair.</def>

<cs><col>In amours with</col>, <cd>in love with. <mark>[Obs.]</mark></cd></cs>

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<h1>Amour propre</h1> <Xpage=50>

<hw>A"mour` pro"pre</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>. <ety>[F.]</ety> <def>Self-love; self-esteem.</def>

<h1>Amovability</h1> <Xpage=50>

<hw>A*mov`a*bil"i*ty</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Liability to be removed or dismissed from office.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>T. Jefferson.</i>

<h1>Amovable</h1> <Xpage=50>

<hw>A*mov"a*ble</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>amovible</ets>.]</ety> <def>Removable.</def>

<h1>Amove</h1> <Xpage=50>

<hw>A*move"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>amovere</ets>; <ets>a-<ets> (<ets>ab</ets>) + <ets>movere</ets> to move: cf. OF. <ets>amover</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To remove, as a person or thing, from a position.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> <i>Dr. H. More</i>.

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>To dismiss from an office or station.</def>

<h1>Amove</h1> <Xpage=50>

<hw>A*move"</hw>, <tt>v. t. & i.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>amovir</ets>, L. <ets>admovere</ets> to move to, to excite; <ets>ad + movere</ets>.]</ety> <def>To move or be moved; to excite.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<h1>Ampelite</h1> <Xpage=50>

<hw>Am"pe*lite</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>ampelitis</ets>, Gr. <?/, fr. <?/ vine.]</ety> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist.</def>

<h1>Amp\'8are, Ampere</h1> <Xpage=50>