Brisk; joyously active; lively.

With alacrity; briskly.

Alacrity.

A cheerful readiness, willingness, or promptitude; joyous activity; briskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced with alacrity to meet the enemy.

One of a sect of freethinkers among the Muslims.

Impairment of articulate speech, or inability to speak, usually due to impairment of control of muscles in the articulatory apparatus.

Inability to utter articulate sounds, due either to paralysis of the larynx or to that form of aphasia, called motor, or ataxis, aphasia, due to loss of control of the muscles of speech.

The lowest note but one in Guido Aretino's scale of music.

The quality of being / la mode; conformity to the mode or fashion; fashionableness.

A thin, black silk for hoods, scarfs, etc.; -- often called simply mode.

To the death; mortally.

A wolfhound.

On land; to the land; ashore.

one of the natural amino acids found combined in the proteins of most living tissues. It can be isolated as a white crystalline base, C3H7NO2. The natural form is the L-configuration.

See Inulin.

Pertaining to, or having, wings.

To call to arms for defense; to give notice to (any one) of approaching danger; to rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert.

Easily alarmed or disturbed.

Aroused to vigilance; excited by fear of approaching danger; agitated; disturbed; as, an alarmed neighborhood; an alarmed modesty.

In an alarmed manner.

Exciting, or calculated to excite, alarm; causing apprehension of danger; as, an alarming crisis or report. -- A*larm"ing*ly, adv.

the act of giving, or tendency to give, needless warnings.

One prone to sound or excite alarms, especially, needless alarms.

See Alarm.

Of or pertaining to wings; also, wing-shaped.

An exclamation expressive of sorrow, pity, or apprehension of evil; -- in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas the day, like alack a day, or alas the white.

a resident of Alaska.

Lately; of late.

Winged; having wings, or side appendages like wings.

An ornamental evergreen shrub (Rhamnus alaternus) belonging to the buckthorns.

The state of being winged.

See Alan.

A vestment of white linen, reaching to the feet, an enveloping the person; -- in the Roman Catholic church, worn by those in holy orders when officiating at mass. It was formerly worn, at least by clerics, in daily life.

A name applied to several large fishes of the Mackerel family (Scombridae), esp. Thunnus alalunga (formerly Orcynus alalonga); it is a type of tuna or tunny. The name has been also applied to a larger related species, Thunnus thynnus (formerly Orcynus thynnus), common in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, which is called in New England the horse mackerel.

A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta-percha by the action of alcohol or ether.

Of or pertaining to Albania, a province of Turkey. A native of Albania.

A white metallic alloy; which is made into spoons, forks, teapots, etc. British plate or German silver. See German silver, under German.

A web-footed bird, of the genus Diomedea, of which there are several species. They are the largest of sea birds, capable of long-continued flight, and are often seen at great distances from the land. They are found chiefly in the southern hemisphere.

Whiteness. The ratio which the light reflected from an unpolished surface bears to the total light falling upon that surface.

Although; albeit.

Even though; although; notwithstanding.

A bituminous mineral resembling asphaltum, found in the county of Albert, New Brunswick.

A picture printed from a kind of gelatine plate produced by means of a photographic negative.

The act of becoming white; whitishness.

Becoming white or whitish; moderately white.

Growing or becoming white.

The process of becoming white, or developing white patches, or streaks.

same as albacore.

The act or process of making white.

Of or pertaining to the Albigenses.

A sect of reformers opposed to the church of Rome in the 12th centuries.

A female albino.

The state or condition of being an albino: abinoism; leucopathy.

Affected with albinism.

A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes is deficient or in a morbid state. An albino has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from the absence of chlorophyll.

The state or condition of being an albino; albinism.

Affected with albinism.

An ancient name of England, still retained in poetry.

A mineral of the feldspar family, triclinic in crystallization, and in composition a silicate of alumina and soda. It is a common constituent of granite and of various igneous rocks. See Feldspar.

any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Albizia, of the legume family.

The imaginary milk-white animal on which Mohammed was said to have been carried up to heaven; a white mule.

any of various plants of the genus Albuca having large clusters of pale yellow flowers; native to South Africa.

a family of fungi that produce white blisterlike sori on certain flowering plants.

Of the nature of, or resembling, the white of the eye, or of an egg; albuminous; -- a term applied to textures, humors, etc., which are perfectly white.

Same as Leucoma.

A genus of fish, the type and sole genus of the family Albulidae.

A natural family of fish comprising the bonefish.

A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc.

The white of an egg.

To cover or saturate with albumen; to coat or treat with an albuminous solution; as, to albumenize paper.

A thick, viscous nitrogenous substance, which is the chief and characteristic constituent of white of eggs and of the serum of blood, and is found in other animal substances, both fluid and solid, also in many plants. It is soluble in water and is coagulated by heat and by certain chemical reagents.

A substance produced by the action of an alkali upon albumin, and resembling casein in its properties; also, a compound formed by the union of albumin with another substance.

The level of albumin in the blood.

Supplying albumen.

An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of albumen in a liquid.

The substance of the cells which inclose the white of birds' eggs.

Producing albumin.

Resembling albumin. One of a class of organic principles (called also proteids) which form the main part of organized tissues.

Of the nature of an albuminoid.

A diffusible substance formed from albumin by the action of natural or artificial gastric juice. See Peptone.

A condition of excessively high blood albumin level.

Pertaining to, or containing, albumin; having the properties of, or resembling, albumen or albumin; an older term now replaces by proteinaceous.

A morbid condition in which albumin is present in the urine.

A compound or class of compounds formed from albumin by dilute acids or by an acid solution of pepsin. Used also in combination, as antialbumose, hemialbumose.

The bleak, a small European fish having scales of a peculiarly silvery color which are used in making artificial pearls.

Of or pertaining to alburnum; of the alburnum; as, alburnous substances.

The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood.

Scotland; esp. the Highlands of Scotland.

Same as Alcaid.

Same as Alkahest.

Pertaining to Alc/us, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000 b. c. A kind of verse, so called from Alc/us. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls.

A magistrate or judge in Spain and in Spanish America, etc.

The jurisdiction or office of an alcalde; also, the building or chamber in which he conducts the business of his office.

See Alkalimeter.

An oriental shrub (Lawsonia inermis) from which henna is obtained.

A vessel of porous earthenware, used for cooling liquids by evaporation from the exterior surface.

Same as Alcaid.

A commander of a castle or fortress among the Spaniards, Portuguese, and Moors.

A fortress; also, a royal palace.

A genus of perching birds, including the European kingfisher (Alcedo ispida). See Halcyon.

a genus of elk or moose.

Of or relating to alchemy.

In the manner of alchemy.

One who practices alchemy.

Relating to or practicing alchemy.

Alchemy.

To change by alchemy; to transmute.

An imaginary art which aimed to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It led the way to modern chemistry.

See Alchemic, Alchemist, Alchemistic, Alchemy.

A small South American dog, domesticated by the aborigines.

Shortened forms of Alcoholate.

An impalpable powder.

A crystallizable compound of a salt with alcohol, in which the latter plays a part analogous to that of water of crystallization.

An alcoholic tincture prepared with fresh plants.

A person given to the use of alcoholic liquors.

Chronic excessive drinking of alcoholic beverages that leads to social, occupational, psychological and physiological problems.

The act of reducing a substance to a fine or impalpable powder.

To reduce to a fine powder.

An instrument for determining the strength of spirits, with a scale graduated so as to indicate the percentage of pure alcohol, either by weight or volume. It is usually a form of hydrometer with a special scale.

Relating to the alcoholometer or alcoholometry.