Anagrams of: MASTURBATIONS

• According to the World Meteorological Organization, a mid-level, principal cloud type, generally formless and dark grey in colour, which forms from altostratus occurring in layers at the middle altitude of the troposphere (usually above 2400 metres). Nimbostratus usually brings precipitation as the mid-level clouds thicken and subside into the low level of the troposphere. Frontal or cyclonic lift can also carry the top of a deep nimbostratus layer into the high levels of the troposphere. Also classified or characterized as multi-level; abbreviated Ns.

• An old lively Provençal dance, common on the stage.

• A percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is most often held in the hand and shaken rhythmically; by extension, any frame drum.

• A tambourine dove.

• A kind of Provençal dance.

• The music for this dance.

• a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases

• pejorative terms for an insane asylum

• of or by or relating to Saint Ambrose

• extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant

• worthy of the gods

• a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae

• any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma

• fruit dessert made of oranges and bananas with shredded coconut

• (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal

• large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy underwing feathers are used to trim garments

• coming to full development; becoming mature

• (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level

• (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus