Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Amends

Amends ({not transcribed}) , noun, singular and plural

[French amendes, plural of amende. Compare Amende.]

Compensation for a loss or injury; recompense; reparation. [Now const. with sing. verb.]
An honorable amends. — Addison
Yet thus far fortune maketh us amends. — Shakespeare