Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

      Mar not the thing that can not be amended.  --Shak.

      An instant emergency, granting no possibility for
      revision, or opening for amended thought.   --De Quincey.

      We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by
      wedding her to a Norman.                    --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.

   {To amend a bill}, to make some change in the details or
      provisions of a bill or measure while on its passage,
      professedly for its improvement.