same as Alexander[wn1]; Smyrnium olusatrum.
a city on the Mediterranean Sea, the chief port of Egypt.
Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt; as, the Alexandrian library.
A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables.
Inability to read aloud, due to brain disease; the meanings of the words is nevertheless understood. Called also motor alexia. Inability, due to brain disease, to understand written or printed symbols. Called also Word blindness and text blindness.
Alexipharmic.
An antidote against poison; a counterpoison.
Of or relating to an alexipharmic or alexipharmac; warding off poison; antidotal; prophylactic.
Serving to drive off fever; antipyretic; antifebrile. An antipyretic drug; a febrifuge.
A preservative against contagious and infectious diseases, and the effects of poison in general.
Resisting poison; obviating the effects of venom; alexipharmic.
A plant (Macrochloa tenacissima) of North Africa; also, its fiber, used in paper making.
The lucern (Medicago sativa), a leguminous plant having bluish purple cloverlike flowers, and cultivated for fodder; -- so called in California, Texas, etc.
An alloy of nickel and silver electroplated with silver.
An ensign; a standard bearer.
A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.
The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California.
Same as Alfilaria.
An edible marine fish of California (Rhacochilus toxotes).
A saddlebag.
In the open-air.
A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water conferv/, etc. The algae are primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
plural of alga.
Pertaining to, or like, alg/.
The Carob, a leguminous tree of the Mediterranean region; also, its edible beans or pods, called St. John's bread. The Honey mesquite (Prosopis juliflora), a small tree found from California to Buenos Ayres; also, its sweet, pulpy pods. A valuable gum, resembling gum arabic, is collected from the tree in Texas and Mexico.
A term used for the Powder of Algaroth, a white powder which is a compound of trichloride and trioxide of antimony. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic, purgative, and diaphoretic.
The agglutinated seeds and husks of the legumes of a South American tree (Inga Marthae). It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye.
Always; wholly; everywhere.
The true gazelle.
That branch of mathematics which treats of the relations and properties of quantity by means of letters and other symbols. It is applicable to those relations that are true of every kind of magnitude.
Of or pertaining to algebra; using algebra; according to the laws of algebra; containing an operation of algebra, or deduced from such operation; as, algebraic characters; algebraical writings; algebraic geometry.
By algebraic process.
One versed in algebra.
To perform by algebra; to reduce to algebraic form.
Of or pertaining to Algeria. A native of Algeria.
A native or one of the people of Algiers or Algeria. Also, a pirate.
Cold; chilly.
Chilliness; coldness coldness and collapse.
Algidity.
The capital city of Algeria. Population (2000) = unk.
Producing cold.
A nitrogenous substance resembling gelatin, obtained from certain alg/.
Of the nature of, or resembling, an alga.
A fixed star, in Medusa's head, in the constellation Perseus, remarkable for its periodic variation in brightness.
Of or pertaining to algology; as, algological specimens.
One learned about alg/; a student of algology.
The study or science of alg/ or seaweeds.
An instrument for measuring sensations of pain due to pressure. It has a piston rod with a blunted tip which is pressed against the skin.
Var. of Algonquian.
One of a widely spread family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence.
Pertaining to or designating the most extensive of the linguistic families of North American Indians, their territory formerly including practically all of Canada east of the 115th meridian and south of Hudson's Bay and the part of the United States east of the Mississippi and north of Tennessee and Virginia, with the exception of the territory occupied by the northern Iroquoian tribes. There are nearly 100,000 Indians of the Algonquian tribes, of which the strongest are the Ojibwas (Chippewas), Ottawas, Crees, Algonquins, Micmacs, and Blackfeet. An Algonquian Indian.
Cold; chilliness.
a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem; a set of procedures guaranteed to find the solution to a problem.
The art of calculating by nine figures and zero; computation with Arabic figures.
of or pertaining to an algorithm.
Of or pertaining to the alg/, or seaweeds; abounding with, or like, seaweed.
An inferior officer of justice in Spain; a warrant officer; a constable.
Same as Almug (and etymologically preferable).
A tree or wood of the Bible (2 Chron. ii. 8; 1 K. x. 11).
The palace of the Moorish kings at Granada.
Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture.
See Henna.
A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect. Another name; an assumed name.
The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi.
Quality of being alible.
Nutritive; nourishing.
A kind of wine, formerly much esteemed; -- said to have been made near Alicant, in Spain.
pertaining to compounds that have a ring in the structure, but are not aromatic, as cyclohexane or cyclohexene. Compare aliphatic and aromatic.
The portion of a graduated instrument, as a quadrant or astrolabe, carrying the sights or telescope, and showing the degrees cut off on the arc of the instrument
To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership.
Capability of being alienated.
Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another; as, land is alienable according to the laws of the state.
The state or legal condition of being an alien.
A stranger; an alien.
socially disoriented.
The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated.
One who alienates.
To alien or alienate; to transfer, as title or property; as, to aliene an estate.
One to whom the title of property is transferred; -- opposed to alienor.
The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage.
One who treats diseases of the mind.
One who alienates or transfers property to another.
Pertaining to expansions of the ethmoid bone or cartilage.
On my life; dearly.
Having wings, winged; aligerous.
Wing-shaped; winglike.
Having wings; winged.
Lighted; lighted up; in a flame.
To form in line; to fall into line.
in or brought into line with or into proper relative position; -- of spatial position.
bringing into alignment
The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also, the line of adjustment; esp., an imaginary line to regulate the formation of troops or of a squadron.
In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally; as, we are all alike concerned in religion.
Like-minded.
The tunny. See Albicore.
To nourish; to support.
Supplying food; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap.
So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality.
The quality of being alimentary; nourishing quality.
Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances.
The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.
The instinct or faculty of appetite for food.
Affording food; nourishing.
Maintenance; means of living.
Pertaining to expansions of the nasal bone or cartilage.
To range or place in a line; to bring into line; to align.
See Allineation.
Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun.
Same as Alignment.
One who adjusts things to a line or lines or brings them into line.
A star in the tail of the Great Bear, the one next the bowl in the Dipper.
Wing-footed, as the bat. An animal whose toes are connected by a membrane, serving for a wing, as the bat.
Of, pertaining to, or derived from, fat; fatty; -- applied to compounds having an open-chain structure. The aliphatic compounds thus include not only the fatty acids and other derivatives of the paraffin hydrocarbons, but also unsaturated compounds, as the ethylene and acetylene series. Compare alicyclic and aromatic.
An aliquant part of a number or quantity is one which does not divide it without leaving a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquant part of 16. Opposed to aliquot.
An aliquot part of a number or quantity is one which will divide it without a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquot part of 15. Opposed to aliquant.
A name given to two species of the genus Smyrnium, formerly cultivated and used as celery now is; -- called also horse parsely.
Relating to expansions of the nasal septum.
Like ale; as, an alish taste.
The alisphenoid bone.
Pertaining to or forming the wing of the sphenoid; relating to a bone in the base of the skull, which in the adult is often consolidated with the sphenoid; as, alisphenoid bone; alisphenoid canal.
The segment of the body of an insect to which the wings are attached; the thorax.