Alloyed – Amatorious

Alloyed

ALLOY'ED, participle passive Mixed; reduced in purity; debased; abated by foreign mixture.

Alloying

ALLOY'ING, participle present tense Mixing a baser metal with a finer, to reduce its purity; abating by foreign mixture.

Allspice

ALL'SPICE, [See under the compounds of all.]

Allude

ALLU'DE, verb intransitive [Latin alludo, to smile upon or make sport with of ad and ludo, to play.]

To refer to something not directly mentioned; to have reference; to hint at by remote suggestions; as, that story alludes to a recent transaction.

Alluding

ALLU'DING, participle present tense Having reference; hinting at.

Alluminor

ALLU'MINOR, noun

One who colors or paints upon paper or parchment, giving light and ornament to letters and figures.

This is now written limner.

Allure

ALLU'RE, verb transitive

To attempt to draw to; to tempt by the offer of some good, real or apparent; to invite by something flattering or acceptable; as, rewards allure men to brave danger. Sometimes used in a bad sense, to allure to evil; but in this sense entice is more common. In Hosea 2:14, allure is used in its genuine sense; 2 Peter 2:18, in the sense of entice.

Allured

ALLU'RED, participle passive Tempted; drawn, or invited, by something that appears desirable.

Allurement

ALLU'REMENT, noun That which allures; any real or apparent good held forth, or operating; as a motive to action; temptation; enticement; as, the allurements of pleasure, or of honor.

Allurer

ALLU'RER, noun He, or that, which allures.

Alluring

ALLU'RING, participle present tense

1. Drawing; tempting; inviting by some real or apparent good.

2. adjective Inviting; having the quality of attracting or tempting.

Alluringly

ALLU'RINGLY, adverb In an alluring manner; enticingly.

Alluringness

ALLU'RINGNESS, noun The quality of alluring or tempting by the prospect of some good. [Rarely used.]

Allusion

ALLU'SION, noun alluzhun. [Latin See Allude.]

A reference to something not explicitly mentioned; a hint; a suggestion, by which something is applied or understood to belong to that which is not mentioned, by means of some similitude which is perceived between them.

Allusive

ALLU'SIVE, adjective Having reference to something not fully expressed.

Allusively

ALLU'SIVELY, adverb By way of allusion; by implication, remote suggestion or insinuation.

Allusiveness

ALLU'SIVENESS, noun The quality of being allusive. [Rarely used.]

Alluvial

ALLU'VIAL, adjective [See alluvion.]

1. Pertaining to alluvion; added to land by the wash of water.

2. Washed ashore or down a stream; formed by a current of water; as, alluval ores; alluvial soil.

Alluvion

ALLU'VION,

ALLU'VIOUS, adjective The same as alluvial, and less frequently used.

Alluvious

ALLU'VIOUS, a. The same as alluvial, and less frequently used.

Alluvium

ALLU'VIUM, noun [Latin alluvio, of ad and lavo or luo, alluo, to wash. See Lave.]

1. The insensible increase of earth on a shore, or bank of a river, by the force of water, as by a current or by waves. The owner of the land thus augmented has a right to the alluvial earth.

2. A gradual washing or carrying of earth or other substances to a shore or bank; the earth thus added.

3. The mass of substances collected by means of the action of water.

In this alluvium was found the entire skeleton of a whale.

Ally

ALLY', verb transitive [Latin ligo.]

1. To unite, or form a relation, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league or confederacy.

2. To form a relation by similitude, resemblance or friendship. Note. This word is more generally used in the passive form, as families are allied by blood; or reciprocally, as princes ally themselves to powerful states.

ALLY' noun

1. A prince or state united by treaty or league; a confederate.

The allies of Rome were slaves.

2. One related by marriage or other tie; but seldom applied to individuals, except to princes in their public capacity.

Allying

ALLY'ING, participle present tense Uniting by marriage or treaty.

Alma

AL'ME, or AL'MA, noun Girls in Egypt, whose occupation is to amuse company with singing and dancing.

Almacantar

AL'MACANTAR, noun [See almucantar.]

Almadie

ALMADIE, noun A bark canoe used by the Africans; also a long boat used at Calicut, in India, eighty feet long, and six or seven broad; called also cathuri.

Almagest

AL'MAGEST, noun

A book or collection of problems in astronomy and geometry, drawn up by Ptolemy. The same title has been given to other works of the like kind.

Almagra

ALMA'GRA, noun a fine deep red ocher, with an admixture of purple, very heavy, dense but friable, with a rough dusty surface. It is the sil atticum of the ancients. it is austere to the taste, astringent, melting in the mouth and staining the skin. it is used as a paint and as a medicine.

Almanack

AL'MANACK, noun

A small book or table, containing a calendar of days, weeks and months, with the times of the rising of the sun and moon, changes of the moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, stated terms of courts, observations on the weather, etc. for the year ensuing. this calendar is sometimes published on one side of a single sheet, and called a sheet-almanack.

The Baltic nations formerly engraved their calendars on pieces of wood, on swords, helves of axes, and various other utensils, and especially on walking sticks. many of these are preserved in the cabinets of the curious. they are called by different nations, rimstocks, primstories, runstocks, runstaffs, clogs, etc.

The characters used are generally the Runic or Gothic.

Almanack-Maker

ALMANACK-MAKER, noun A maker of almanacks.

Almandine

AL'MANDINE, noun In mineralogy, precious garnet, a beautiful mineral of a red color, of various shades, sometimes tinged with yellow or blue. It is commonly translucent, sometimes transparent. It occurs crystallized in the rhombic, dodecahedron.

Alme

AL'ME, or AL'MA, noun Girls in Egypt, whose occupation is to amuse company with singing and dancing.

Almena

ALME'NA, noun A weight of two pounds, used to weigh saffron in several parts of Asia.

Almightiness

ALMI'GHTINESS, noun Omnipotence; infinite or boundless power; an attribute of God only.

Almighty

ALMI'GHTY, adjective [all and mighty. See Might.]

Possessing all power; omnipotent; being of unlimited might; being of boundless sufficiency; appropriately applied to the Supreme Being.

ALMI'GHTY, noun The Omnipotent God.

Almond

AL'MOND, noun

1. The fruit of the almond tree; an ovate, compressed nut, perforated in the pores. It is either sweet or bitter. [It is popularly pronounced ammond.]

2. The tonsils, two glands near the basis of the tongue, are called almonds, from their resemblance to that nut; vulgularly, but improperly, called the almonds of the ears, as they belong to the throat.

3. In Portugal, a measure by which wine is sold, twenty-six of which make a pipe.

[But in Portuguese it is written almude.]

4. Among lapidaries, almonds signify pieces of rock crystal, used in adorning branch candlesticks, so called from their resemblance to this fruit.

Almond-Furnace

ALMOND-FURNACE, among refiners, is a furnace in which the slags of litharge, left in refining silver, are reduced to lead, by the help of charcoal; that is, according to modern chimistry, in which the oxyd of lead is deoxydized, and the metal revived.

Almond-Tree

ALMOND-TREE, noun The tree which produces the almond. The leaves and flowers resemble those of the peach, but the fruit is longer and more compressed, the green coat is thinner and drier when ripe, and the shell is not so rugged.

Almond-Willow

ALMOND-WILLOW, noun A tree with leaves of a light green on both sides.

Almoner

AL'MONER, noun [See Alms.]

An officer whose duty is to distribute charity or alms. By the ancient canons, every monastery was to dispose of a tenth of its income in alms to the poor, and all bishops were obliged to keep an almoner This title is sometimes given to a chaplain; as, the almoner of a ship or regiment.

The Lord almoner or Lord High almoner in England, is an ecclesiastical officer, generally a bishop, who has the forfeiture of al deodands, and the goods of self-murderers, which he is to distribute to the poor.

The Grand almoner in France, is the first ecclesiastical dignitary, and has the superintendence of hospitals.

Almonry

AL'MONRY, noun [Corrupted into ambry, aumbry, or aumery.]

The place where the almoner resides, or where the alms are distributed.

Almost

ALMO'ST, adverb [all and most.] Nearly; well nigh; for the greatest part.

Almost thou persuadest me to be a christian. Acts 26:28.

Alms

'ALMS noun, 'amz. [Eng. almesse; Latin eleemosyna; Gr. to pity.]

Any thing given gratuitously to relieve the poor, as money, food, or clothing, otherwise called charity.

A lame man was laid daily to ask an alms Acts 3:2.

Cornelius gave much alms to the people. Acts 10:2.

Tenure by free alms or frank-almoign, in England, is that by which the possessor is bound to pray for the soul of the donor, whether dead or alive; a tenure by which most of the ancient monasteries and religious houses in England held their lands, as do the parochial clergy, and many ecclesiastical and eleemosynary establishments at this day. Land thus held was free from all rent or other service.

Alms-Deed

'ALMS-DEED, noun An act of charity; a charitable gift.

Alms-Folk

'ALMS-FOLK, noun Persons supporting other by alms. [Not used.]

Alms-Giver

'ALMS-GIVER, noun One who gives to the poor.

Alms-Giving

'ALMS-GIVING, noun The bestowment of charity.

Alms-House

'ALMS-HOUSE, noun A house appropriated for the use of the poor, who are supported by the public.

Alms-Men

'ALMS-MEN,

'ALMS-PEOPLE, noun Persons supported by charity or by public provision.

Almucantar

AL'MUCANTAR, noun A series of circles of the sphere passing through the center of the sun, or of a star, parallel to the horizon. It is synonymous with a parallel of altitude, whose common zenith is the vertical point.

ALMUCANTAR'S STAFF. An instrument of box or pear-tree, having an arch of fifteen degrees, used to take observations of the sun, about the time of its rising or setting, to find the amplitude and the variations of the compass.

Almude

ALMU'DE, noun A wine measure in Portugal, of which twenty-six make a pipe.

Almug

AL'MUG, noun In scripture a tree or wood.

First occurrence in the Bible(KJV): 1 Kings 10:11

Alnagar

AL'NAGER, or AL'NAGAR, n. A measurer by the ell; a sworn officer, whose duty was to inspect and measure woolen cloth and fix upon it a seal. This office was abolished by Statute, 11 and 12. Will. 3. No duty or office of this kind exists in the United States.

Alnage

AL'NAGE, noun [Latin ulna; Gr. an arm, a cubit. See Ell.]

A measuring by the ell.

Alnager

AL'NAGER, or AL'NAGAR, noun A measurer by the ell; a sworn officer, whose duty was to inspect and measure woolen cloth and fix upon it a seal. This office was abolished by Statute, 11 and 12. Will. 3. No duty or office of this kind exists in the United States.

Alnight

AL'NIGHT, n A cake of wax with the wick in the midst.

Aloe

AL'OE, noun al'o, plural aloes, pronounced aloze, and popularly al'oez, in three syllables, according to the Latin. [Latin aloe; Gr; Heb. plu aloe trees.]

In botany, a genus of monogynian hexanders, of many species; all natives of warm climates, and most of them, of the southern part of Africa.

Among the Mohammedans, the aloe is a symbolic plant, especially in Egypt; and every one who returns from a pilgrimage to Mecca, hangs it over his street door, as a token that he has performed the journey.

In Africa, the leaves of the Guinea aloe are made into durable ropes. Of one species are made fishing lines, bow strings, stockings and hammocs. The leaves of another species hole rain water.

Aloes

ALOES noun, in medicine, is the inspissated juice of the aloe. The juice is collected from the leaves, which are cut and put in a tub, and when a large quantity is procured, it is boiled to a suitable consistence; or it is exposed to the sun, till all the fluid part is exhaled. There are several kinds sold in the shops; as the socotrine aloes from Socotora, an isle in the Indian ocean; the hepatic or common Barbadoes aloes; and the fetid or caballine aloes

ALOES is a stimulating stomachic purgative; when taken in small doses, it is useful for people of a lax habit and sedentary life.

First occurrence in the Bible(KJV): Numbers 24:6

Aloes-Wood

AL'OES-WOOD, noun [See Agallochum.]

Aloetic

ALOET'IC,

ALOET'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to aloe or aloes; partaking of the qualities of aloes.

ALOET'IC, noun A medicine consisting chiefly of aloes.

Aloft

ALOFT', adverb [a and loft. See Loft and Luff.]

1. On high; in the air; high above the ground; as, the eagle soars aloft

2. In seamen's language, in the top; at the mast head; or on the higher yards or rigging. Hence on the upper part, as of a building.

Alogians

ALO'GIANS, noun [Gr. a neg. and word.]

In church history, a sect of ancient heretics, who denied Jesus Christ to be the Logos and consequently rejected the gospel of St. John.

Alogotrophy

AL'OGOTROPHY, noun [Gr. unreasonable and nutrition.]

A disproportionate nutrition of the parts of the body, as when one part receives more or less nourishment and growth than another.

Alogy

AL'OGY, noun [Gr.] Unreasonableness; absurdity. obsolete

Alone

ALO'NE, adjective [all and one.]

1. Single; solitary; without the presence of another; applied to a person or thing.

It is not good that man should be alone Genesis 2:18.

[This adjective follows its noun.]

2. It is applied to two or more persons or things, when separate from others, in a place or condition by themselves; without company.

And when they were alone he expounded all things to his disciples. Mark 4:10.

3. Only.

Thou whose name alone is Jehovah. Psalms 83:18.

This sense at first appears to be adverbial, but really is not; whose name single, solitary, without another, is Jehovah.

To let alone is to suffer to rest; to forbear molesting or meddling with; to suffer to remain in its present state. alone in this phrase, is an adjective, the word to which it refers being omitted; let me alone; let them alone; let it alone; that is, suffer it to be unmolested, or to remain as it is, or let it remain by itself.

ALO'NE, adverb Separately; by itself.

Alonely

ALO'NELY, adjective or adverb Only; merely; singly. [Not used.]

Aloneness

ALO'NENESS, noun That state which belong to no other. [Not used.]

Along

ALONG', adverb [See Long.]

1. By the length; lengthwise; in a line with the length; as, the troops marched along the bank of the river, or along the highway. 1 Samuel 6:12.

2. Onward; in a line, or with a progressive motion; as, a meteor glides along the sky; let us walk along

All along signifies the whole length; through the whole distance; in the whole way or length.

Ishmael went forth, weeping all along as he went. Jeremiah 41:6. 1 Samuel 28:20.

ALONG with signifies in company; joined with; as, Go along with us. Sometimes with is omitted;

Come then, my friend, my genius, come along

ALONG side, in seamen's language, that is, by the length or in a line with the side, signifies side by side, as by another ship or by the side of a wharf.

ALONG shore is by the shore or coast, lengthwise, and near the shore.

Lying along is lying on the side, or pressed down by the weight of sail.

Alongst

ALONGST', adverb Along; through or by the length. obsolete

Aloof

ALOOF, adverb [Probably from the root of leave, to depart.]

1. At a distance, but within view, or at a small distance, in a literal sense; as, to stand aloof

2. In a figurative sense, not concerned in a design; declining to take any share, implying circumspection; keeping at a distance from the point, or matter in debate.

Alopecy

AL'OPECY, noun [Gr. a fox, whose urine is said to occasion baldness.]

A disease, called the fox-evil or scurf, which is a falling off of the hair, from any part of the body.

Alosa

ALO'SA, noun A fish of passage, called the shad, or other of herrings, a species of Clupea. It is an abdominal, and some naturalists allege it to be a different species from the shad.

Aloud

ALOUD', adverb [a and loud; See Loud.]

Loudly; with a loud voice, or great noise.

Cry aloud spare not. Isaiah 58:1.

Alp

ALP, ALPS, noun [Gr. white; Latin albus

Alpagna

ALPAG'NA, noun An animal of Peru, used as a beast of burden; the Camelus Paco of Linne, and the Pacos of Pennant.

Alpha

AL'PHA, noun [Heb. an ox, a leader.]

The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to A, and used to denote first or beginning.

I am alpha and Omega. Revelation 1:8.

As a numeral, it stands for one. It was formerly used also to denote chief; as, Plato was the alpha of the wits.

Alphabet

AL'PHABET, noun [Gr.]

The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters which form the elements of speech.

AL'PHABET, verb transitive To arrange in the order of an alphabet; to form an alphabet in a book, or designate the leaves by the letters of the alphabet

Alphabetarian

ALPHABETA'RIAN, noun A learner while in the adjective B.C.

Alphabetic

ALPHABET'IC,

ALPHABET'ICAL, adjective In the order of an alphabet, or in the order of the letters as customarily arranged.

Alphabetical

ALPHABET'ICAL, a. In the order of an alphabet, or in the order of the letters as customarily arranged.

Alphabetically

ALPHABET'ICALLY, adverb In an alphabetical manner; in the customary order of the letters.

Alphenix

ALPHE'NIX, noun [al and phaenix.]

White barley sugar, used for colds. It is common sugar boiled till it will easily crack; then poured upon an oiled marble table, and molded into various figures.

Alphest

AL'PHEST, noun A small fish, having a purple back and belly, with yellow sides, a smooth mouth, and thick fleshy lips; always caught near the shore or among rocks.

Alphonsin

ALPHON'SIN, noun A surgical instrument for extracting bullets from wounds, so called from its inventor, Alphonsus Ferrier of Naples. It consists of three branches, which close by a ring, and open when it is drawn back.

ALPHON'SIN TABLES. Astronomical tables made by Alphonsus king of Arragon.

Alphus

AL'PHUS, noun [Gr. white.]

That species of leprosy called vitiligo, in which the skin is rough, with white spots.

Alpia

AL'PIST, or AL'PIA, noun The seed of the fox-tail; a small seed, used for feeding birds.

Alpine

AL'PINE, adjective [Latin alpinus, from Alpes.]

1. Pertaining to the Alps, or to any lofty mountain; very high; elevated.

2. Growing on high mountains; as, alpine plants.

AL'PINE, noun A kind of strawberry growing on lofty hills.

Alpist

AL'PIST, or AL'PIA, noun The seed of the fox-tail; a small seed, used for feeding birds.

Alps

ALP, ALPS noun [Gr. white; Latin albus

A high mountain. The name, it is supposed, was originally given to mountains whose tops were covered with snow, and hence appropriately applied to the mountains of Swisserland; so that by alps is generally understood the latter mountains. But geographers apply the name to any high mountains.

Alquier

AL'QUIER, noun A measure in Portugal for dry things, as well as liquids, containing half an almude or about two gallons. It is called also Cantar.

Alquifou

AL'QUIFOU, noun A sort of lead ore, which, when broke, looks like antimony. It is found in Cornwall, England; used by potters to give a green varnish to their wares, and called potters ore. A small mixture of manganese gives it a blackish hue.

Already

ALREAD'Y, adverb alred'dy. [all and ready. See Ready.]

Literally, a state of complete preparation; but, by an easy deflection, the sense is, at this time, or at a specified time.

Elias is come already Matthew 17:12.

Joseph was in Egypt already Exodus 1:5.

Also

AL'SO, adverb [all and so.] Likewise; in like manner.

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also Matthew 16:1.

Alt

ALT or AL'TO, adjective [Latin altus, high; Heb. upper, high.]

In music a term applied to high notes in the scale. In sculpture, alto-relievo, high relief, is when the figures project half or more, without being entirely detached from the ground.

Altaian

ALTA'IC, or ALTA'IAN, a. Pertaining to the Altai, a vast ridge of mountains extending, in an easterly direction, through a considerable part of Asia, and forming a boundary between the Russian and Chinese dominions.

Altaic

ALTA'IC, or ALTA'IAN, adjective

Pertaining to the Altai, a vast ridge of mountains extending, in an easterly direction, through a considerable part of Asia, and forming a boundary between the Russian and Chinese dominions.

Altar

AL'TAR, noun [Latin altare, probably from the same root as altus, high.

1. A mount; a table or elevated place, on which sacrifices where anciently offered to some deity. Altars were originally made of turf, afterwards of stone, wood or horn; some were round, others square, others triangular. They differed also in height, but all faced the east. The principal altars of the Jews were, the altar of incense, of burnt-offerings, and of shewbread; all of shittim wood, and covered with gold or brass.

2. In modern churches, the communion table; and, figuratively, a church; a place of worship.

3. In scripture, Christ is called the altar of Christians, he being the atoning sacrifice for sin.

We have an altar whereof they have no right to eat, who serve tabernacles. Hebrews 13:10.

Altar-Cloth

AL'TAR-CLOTH, noun A cloth to lay upon an altar in churches.

Altar-Piece

AL'TAR-PIECE, noun A painting placed over the altar in a church.

Altar-Thane

AL'TARIST, or AL'TAR-THANE, noun In old laws, an appellation given to the priest to whom the altarage belonged; also a chaplain.

Altar-Wise

AL'TAR-WISE, adverb Placed in the manner of an altar.

Altarage

AL'TARAGE, noun The profits arising to priests from oblations, or on account of the altar. Also, in law, altars erected in virtue of donations, before the reformation, within a parochial church, for the purpose of singing a mass for deceased friends.

Altarist

AL'TARIST, or AL'TAR-THANE, noun In old laws, an appellation given to the priest to whom the altarage belonged; also a chaplain.

Alter

AL'TER, verb transitive [Latin alter another. See Alien.]

1. To make some change in; to make different in some particular; to vary in some degree, without an entire change.

My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that has gone out of my lips. Psalms 89:34.

2. To change entirely or materially; as, to alter an opinion. In general, to alter is to change partially; to change is more generally to substitute one thing for another, or to make a material difference in a thing.

AL'TER, verb intransitive To become, in some respects, different; to vary; as, the weather alters almost daily.

The law which altereth not. Daniel 4:1.

Alterability

AL'TERABILITY, noun The quality of being susceptible of alteration.

Alterable

AL'TERABLE, adjective That may become different; that may vary.

Alterableness

AL'TERABLENESS, noun The quality of admitting alteration; variableness.

Alterably

AL'TERABLY, adverb In a manner that may be altered, or varied.

Alterage

AL'TERAGE, noun [From alo, to feed.]

The breeding, nourishing or fostering of a child. But this is not an English word.

Alterant

AL'TERANT, adjective Altering; gradually changing.

AL'TERANT, noun A medicine which, without a sensible operation, gradually corrects the state of the body and changes it from a diseased to a healthy condition. An alterative.

Alteration

ALTERA'TION, noun [Latin alteratio.]

The act of making different, or of varying in some particular; an altering or partial change; also the change made, or the loss or acquisition of qualities not essential to the form or nature of a thing. Thus a cold substance suffers an alteration when it becomes hot.

Alterative

AL'TERATIVE, adjective Causing alteration; having the power to alter.

AL'TERATIVE, noun A medicine which, without sensible operation, gradually induces a change in the habit or constitution and restores healthy functions. This word is more generally used than alterant.

Altercate

AL'TERCATE, verb intransitive [Latin altercor, alterco, from alter, another.]

To contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat or anger; to wrangle.

Altercation

ALTERCA'TION, noun [Latin altercatio.]

Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle.

Altern

AL'TERN adjective [Latin alternus, of alter, another.]

1. Acting by turns; one succeeding another; alternate, which is the word generally used.

2. In crystallography, exhibiting, on two parts, an upper and a lower part, faces which alternate among themselves, but which, when the two parts are compared, correspond with each other.

Altern-base, in trigonometry, is a term used in distinction from the true base. Thus in oblique triangles, the true base is the sum of the sides, and then the difference of the sides is the altern-base; or the true base is the difference of the sides, and then the sum of the sides is the altern-base.

Alternacy

AL'TERNACY, noun Performance or actions by turns. [Little used.]

Alternal

ALTERN'AL, adjective Alternative. [Little used.]

Alternally

ALTERN'ALLY, adverb By turns. [Little used.]

Alternate

ALTERN'ATE, adjective [Latin alternatus.]

1. Being by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; hence reciprocal.

And bid alternate passions fall and rise.

2. In botany branches and leaves are alternate when they rise higher on opposite sides alternately, come out singly, and follow in gradual order.

Alternate alligation. [See Alligation.]

Alternate angles, in geometry, the internal angles made by a line cutting two parallels, and lying on opposite sides of the cutting line; the one below the first parallel, and the other above the second.

In heraldry, the first and fourth quarters, and the second and third, are usually of the same nature, and are called alternate quarters.

ALTERN'ATE, noun That which happens by turns with something else; vicissitude.

AL'TERNATE, verb transitive [Latin alterno. See Alter. With the accent on the second syllable, the participle alternating can hardly be pronounced.]

To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to change one thing for another reciprocally; as, God alternates good and evil.

AL'TERNATE, verb intransitive

1. To happen or to act by turns; as, the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other.

2. To follow reciprocally in place.

Different species alternating with each other.

Alternately

ALTERN'ATELY, adverb In reciprocal succession; by turns, so that each is succeeded by that which it succeeds, as night follows day and day follows night.

Alternateness

ALTERN'ATENESS, noun The quality of being alternate, or of following in succession.

Alternating

AL'TERNATING, participle present tense Performing or following by turns.

Alternation

ALTERNA'TION, noun

1. The reciprocal succession of things, in time or place; the act of following and being followed in succession; as, we observe the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter.

2. The different changes or alterations of orders, in numbers. Thus, if it is required to know how many changes can be rung on six bells, multiply the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, continually into one another, and the last product is the number required. This is call permutation.

3. The answer of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister.

4. Alternate performance, in the choral sense.

Alternative

ALTERN'ATIVE, adjective Offering a choice of two things.

ALTERN'ATIVE, noun That which may be chosen or omitted; a choice of two things, so that if one is taken, the other must be left. Thus, when two things offer a choice of one only, the two things are called alternatives. In strictness, then, the word can not be applied to more than two things, and when one thing only is offered for choice, it is said there is no alternative

Between these alternatives there is no middle ground.

Alternatively

ALTERN'ATIVELY, adverb In the manner of alternatives; in a manner that admits the choice of one out of two things.

Alternativeness

ALTERN'ATIVENESS, noun The quality or state of being alternative.

Alternity

ALTERN'ITY, noun Succession by turns; alternation.

Althea

ALTHE'A, noun [Gr. to heal.]

In botany, a genus of polyandrian monadelphs, of several species; called in English marsh-mallow.

The common species has a perennial root, and an annual stalk rising four or five feet. It abounds with mucilage, and is used as an emollient.

Although

ALTHO'UGH, altho', obsolete verb, or used only in the Imperative.

Grant all this; be it so; allow all; suppose that; admit all that; as, 'although the fig tree shall not blossom.' Habakkuk 3:17. That is, grant, admit or suppose what follows - 'the fig tree shall not blossom.' It is a transitive verb, and admits after it the definitive that - although that the fig tree shall not blossom; but this use of the verb, has been long obsolete. The word may be defined by notwithstanding, non obstante; as not opposing may be equivalent to admitting or supposing.

Altiloquence

ALTIL'OQUENCE, noun [Latin altus, high, and loquor, loquens, speaking.] Lofty speech; pompous language.

Altimeter

ALTIM'ETER, noun [Latin altus, high and Gr. measure. See Measure and Mode.]

An instrument for taking altitudes by geometrical principles, as a geometrical quadrant.

Altimetry

ALTIM'ETRY, noun The art of ascertaining altitudes by means of a proper instrument, and by trigonometrical principles without actual mensuration.

Altin

AL'TIN, noun A money of account in Russia, value three kopecks, or about three cents; also a lake in Siberia, ninety miles in length.

Altincar

ALTIN'CAR, noun A species of factitious salt or powder, used in the fusion and purification of metals, prepared in various ways. [See Tincal.]

Altisonant

ALTIS'ONANT,

ALTIS'ONOUS, adjective [Latin altus, high, and sonans, sounding; sonus, sound.] High sounding, lofty or pompous, as language.

Altisonous

ALTIS'ONOUS, a. [L. altus, high, and sonans, sounding; sonus, sound.] High sounding, lofty or pompous, as language.

Altitude

AL'TITUDE, noun [Latin altitudo, of altus, high, and a common termination, denoting state, condition or manner.]

1. Space extended upward; height; the elevation of an object above its foundation; as, the altitude of a mountain, or column; or the elevation of an object or place above the surface on which we stand, or above the earth; as, the altitude of a cloud or a meteor; or the elevation of one object above another; as, of a bird above the top of a a tree.

2. The elevation of a point, a star, or other object above the horizon. This is true or apparent altitude; true, when taken from the rational or real horizon; apparent, when taken from the sensible, or apparent horizon.

3. Figuratively, high degree; superior excellence; highest point of excellence.

He is proud to the altitude of his virtue.

The altitude of the eye, in perspective, is a right line let fall from the eye, perpendicular to the geometrical plane.

Meridian altitude is an arch of the meridian between the horizon and any star or point on the meridian.

Altivolant

ALTIV'OLANT, adjective [Latin altus, high, and volans, flying.]

Flying high.

Alto

AL'TO. [Latin altus.] High.

Alto and Basso, high and low, in old law, terms used to signify a submission of all differences of every kind to arbitration.

Alto-Octavo

AL'TO-OCTA'VO. An octave higher.

Alto-Relievo

AL'TO-RELIE'VO. High relief, in sculpture, is the projection of a figure half or more, without being entirely detached.

Alto-Ripieno

AL'TO-RIPIE'NO. The tenor of the great chorus, which sings and plays only in particular places.

Alto-Viola

AL'TO-VIOLA. A small tenor viol.

Alto-Violino

AL'TO-VIOLINO. A small tenor violin.

Altogether

ALTOGETH'ER, adverb [all and together. See Together.]

Wholly; entirely; completely; without exception.

Every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. Psalms 39:5.

Aludel

AL'UDEL, noun [a and lutum, without lute. Lunier.]

In chimistry, aludels are earthern pots without bottoms, that they may be exactly fitted into each other, and used in sublimations. At the bottom of the furnace is a pot containing the matter to be sublimed, and at the top a head to receive the volatile matter.

Alum

AL'UM, noun [Latin alumen.]

A triple sulphate of alumina and potassa. This substance is white, transparent and very astringent; but seldom found pure or crystallized. This salt is usually prepared by roasting and lixiviating certain clays containing pyrites, and to the lye adding a certain quantity of potassa; the salt is then obtained by crystallization. alum is of great use in medicine and the arts. In medicine, it is used as an astringent; internally, in hemoptoe, diarrhea, and dysentery; externally, as a styptic applied to bleeding vessels, and as an escharotic. In the arts, it is used in dyeing to fix colors; in making candles, for hardening the tallow; in tanning, for restoring the cohesion of skins.

Alum-Earth

ALUM-EARTH, noun A massive mineral, of a blackish brown color, a dull luster, and soft consistence.

Alum-Slate

ALUM-SLATE, noun A mineral of two species, common and glossy.

Alum-Stone

ALUM-STONE, noun The siliceous subsulphate of alumina and potash.

Alumin

AL'UMIN,

ALU'MINA, noun An earth or earthy substance, which has been considered to be elementary, and called pure clay; but recently, chimical experiments have given reason to believe it to be a metallic oxyd, to the base of which has been given the name aluminum. This metallic base however has not been obtained in such a state as to make its properties susceptible of examination. Alumina is destitute of taste and smell. When moistened with water, it forms a cohesive and ductile mass, susceptible of being kneaded into regular forms.

Alumina

ALU'MINA, n. An earth or earthy substance, which has been considered to be elementary, and called pure clay; but recently, chimical experiments have given reason to believe it to be a metallic oxyd, to the base of which has been given the name aluminum. This metallic base however has not been obtained in such a state as to make its properties susceptible of examination. Alumina is destitute of taste and smell. When moistened with water, it forms a cohesive and ductile mass, susceptible of being kneaded into regular forms.

Aluminiform

ALU'MINIFORM adjective Having the form of alumina.

Aluminite

AL'UMINITE, noun Subsulphate of alumina; a mineral that occurs in small roundish or reniform masses. Its color is snow white or yellowish white.

Aluminous

ALU'MINOUS, adjective Pertaining to alum or alumina, or partaking of the same properties.

Aluminum

ALU'MINUM, noun The name given to the supposed metallic base of alumina.

Alumish

AL'UMISH, adjective Having the nature of alum; somewhat resembling alum.

Aluta

ALU'TA, noun [Latin] A species of leatherstone, soft, pliable and not laminated.

Alutation

ALUTA'TION, noun [Latin aluta, tanned leather.] The tanning of leather.

Alveary

AL'VEARY, noun [Latin alvearium, alveare, a bee hive, from alvus, the belly.] The hollow of the external ear, or bottom of the concha.

Alveolar

AL'VEOLAR,

AL'VEOLARY, adjective [Latin alveolus, a socket, from alveus, a hollow vessel.] Containing sockets, hollow cells or its; pertaining to sockets.

Alveolary

AL'VEOLARY, a. [L. alveolus, a socket, from alveus, a hollow vessel.] Containing sockets, hollow cells or its; pertaining to sockets.

Alveolate

AL'VEOLATE, adjective [Latin alveolatus, from alveus, a hollow vessel.]pitted, so as to resemble a honey comb.

Alveole

AL'VEOLE,

AL'VEOLITE, noun [Latin alveolus, and Gr.]

In natural history, a kind of stony polypiers, of a globular or hemispherical shape; formed by numerous concentric beds, each composed of a union of little cells.

Alveolite

AL'VEOLITE, n. [L. alveolus, and Gr.] In natural history, a kind of stony polypiers, of a globular or hemispherical shape; formed by numerous concentric beds, each composed of a union of little cells.

Alveolus

AL'VEOLUS, noun [Latin dim of alveus.]

1. A cell in a bee hive, or in a fossil.

2. The socket in the jaw, in which a tooth is fixed.

3. A sea fossil of a conic figure, composed of a number of cells, like bee-hives, joined by a pipe of communication.

Alvine

AL'VINE, adjective [from alvus, the belly.] Belonging to the belly or intestines.

Alwargrim

ALWAR'GRIM, noun The spotted plover.

Alway

AL'WAY or AL'WAYS, adverb [all and way]

Always

AL'WAY or AL'WAYS, adverb [all and way]

1. Perpetually; throughout all time; as, God is ALWAYS the same.

2. Continually; without variation.

I do alway those things which please him. John 8:29. Matthew 28:1.

3. Continually or constantly during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals.

Mephibosheth shall eat bread alway at my table. 2 Samuel 9:1.

4. At all convenient times; regularly.

Cornelius prayed to God alway. Acts 10:1. Luke 18:1. Ephesians 6:18.

Alway is now seldom used. The application of this compound to time proceeds from the primary sense of way, which is a going or passing; hence, continuation.

A.M. stand for Artium Magister, master of arts, the second degree given by universities and colleges; called in some countries, doctor of philosophy. In America, this degree is conferred without examination, on bachelors of three years standing.

A.M. stand also for Anno Mundi, in the year of the world.

AM, the first person of the verb to be, in the indicative mode, present tense.

I am that I am. Exodus 3:1.

Am

AMB, AM. About; around; used in composition. Gr., Lat. am or amb.

Ama

A'MA, or HA'MA, n. In church affairs, a vessel to contain wine for the eucharist; also, a wine measure, as a cask, a pipe, &c.

Amability

AMABIL'ITY, noun [Latin amabilis, from to love.]

Loveliness; the power of pleasing, or rather the combination of agreeable qualities which win the affections.

Amadavad

AMAD'AVAD, noun A small curious bird of the size of the crested wren; the upper part of the body is brown, the prime feathers of the wings black.

Amadetto

AMADET'TO, noun a sort of pear, so called, it is said, from a person who cultivated it.

Amadogade

AMAD'OGADE, noun a small beautiful bird in Peru; the upper part of its body and wings are of a lively green, its breast red, and its belly white.

Amadot

AM'ADOT, noun A sort of pear.

Amadou

AM'ADOU, noun A variety of the boletus igniarius, found on old ash and other trees.

This is written also amadow, and called black match, and pyrotechnical spunge, on account of its inflammability.

Amain

AMA'IN, adverb

With force, strength or violence; violently; furiously; suddenly; at once.

What, when we fled amain

Let go amain in seamen's language or strike amain is to let fall or lower at once.

Amalgam

AMAL'GAM, noun [Gr. to soften. Its usual derivation is certainly erroneous.]

1. A mixture of mercury or quicksilver with another metal; any metallic alloy, of which mercury forms an essential constituent part.

2. A mixture or compound of different things.

Amalgamate

AMAL'GAMATE, verb transitive

1. To mix quicksilver with another metal. Gregory uses amalgamize.

2. To mix different things, to make a compound; to unite.

AMAL'GAMATE, verb intransitive To mix or unite in an amalgam; to blend.

Amalgamated

AMAL'GAMATED, participle passive Mixed with quicksilver; blended.

Amalgamating

AMAL'GAMATING, participle present tense Mixing quicksilver with another metal; compounding.

Amalgamation

AMALGAMA'TION, noun

1. The act or operation of mixing mercury with another metal.

2. The mixing or blending of different things.

Amalozk

AM'ALOZK, noun A large aquatic fowl of Mexico.

Amandola

AMAN'DOLA, noun A green marble, having the appearance of honey comb, and containing white spots; of 100 parts 76 are mild calcarious earth, 20 shist and 2 iron. The cellular appearance proceeds from the shist.

Amanuensis

AMANUEN'SIS, noun [Latin from manus, hand.]

A person whose employment is to write what another dictates.

Amaranth

AM'ARANTH,

AMARANTH'INE, adjective Belonging to amaranth; consisting of, containing, or resembling amaranth

Amaranthine

AMARANTH'INE, a. Belonging to amaranth; consisting of, containing, or resembling amaranth.

Amaranthus

AMARANTH'US, noun [Gr.of a neg. and to decay; so called, it is said, because, when cropped, it does not soon wither.]

Flower-gentle; a genus of plants, of many species. Of these the tricolored has long been cultivated in gardens, on account of the beauty of its variegated leaves.

AM'ARANTH, noun A color inclining to purple.

Amaritude

AMAR'ITUDE, noun [Latin amaritudo, from amarus, bitter; from Heb. bitter.] Bitterness. [Not much used.]

Amaryllis

AMARYL'LIS, noun [The name of a country girl in Theocritus and Virgil.]

In botany, lily-daffodil, a genus of liliaceous plants of several species, which are cultivated in gardens for the beauty of their flowers.

Amass

AM'ASS, verb transitive [Latin massa, a heap or lump; Gr. See mass.]

1. To collect into a heap; to gather a great quantity; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure.

2. To collect in great numbers; to add many things together; as, to amass words or phrases.

AM'ASS, noun An assemblage, heap or accumulation. [This is superseded by Mass.]

Amassed

AM'ASSED, participle passive Collected in a heap, or in a great quantity or number; accumulated.

Amassing

AM'ASSING, participle present tense Collecting in a heap, or in a large quantity or number.

Amassment

AM'ASSMENT, noun A heap collected; a large quantity or number brought together; an accumulation.

Amate

AMA'TE, verb intransitive [See Mate.] To accompany; also to terrify, to perplex. [Not used.]

Amateur

AMATEU'R, noun [Latin anator, a lover, from amo, to love.]

A person attached to a particular pursuit, study or science, as to music or painting; one who has a taste for the arts.

Amatorial

AMATO'RIAL,

AMATO'RIALLY, adverb In an amatorial manner; by way of love.

Amatorially

AMATO'RIALLY, adv. In an amatorial manner; by way of love.

Amatorious

AMATORIOUS, adjective Pertaining to love.