Loyal.

Belonging to, or consisting of, allegory; of the nature of an allegory; describing by resemblances; figurative.

One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory.

The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense.

To use allegory.

One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist.

A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.

Joy; gladsomeness.

Quicker than andante, but not so quick as allegro. A movement in this time.

Brisk, lively. An allegro movement; a quick, sprightly strain or piece.

one of two or more alternative forms of a gene that can have the same place on homologous chromosomes and are responsible for alternative traits.

of or pertaining to alleles.

One of the pure unit characters commonly existing singly or in pairs in the germ cells of Mendelian hybrids, and exhibited in varying proportion among the organisms themselves; same as allele, 2. Allelomorphs which under certain circumstances are themselves compound are called hypallelomorphs. See Mendel's law.

of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an allelomorph.

An exclamation signifying Praise ye Jehovah. Hence: A song of praise to God. See Hallelujah, the commoner form.

A dance in moderate twofold time, invented by the French in the reign of Louis XIV.; -- now mostly found in suites of pieces, like those of Bach and Handel.

See Alemannic.

Solely; only.

Same as Alder, of all.

Of all; -- used in composition; as, alderbest, best of all, alderwisest, wisest of all.

of or pertaining to allergens or allergenicity.

of or pertaining to allergy.

a physician skilled in the diagnosis and treatment of allergies.

hypersensitivity to a particular substance.

Am eagle without beak or feet, with expanded wings.

To lighten or lessen the force or weight of.

made less severe or intense.

The act of alleviating; a lightening of weight or severity; mitigation; relief.

Tending to alleviate. That which alleviates.

One who, or that which, alleviates.

Alleviative.

A choice taw or marble.

Furnished with alleys; forming an alley.

An alley.

Allhallows.

The feast of All Saints.

Of or pertaining to the time of Allhallows. [Obs.] /Allhallown summer./ Shak. (i. e., late summer; /Indian Summer/).

All the saints (in heaven).

The time at or near All Saints, or November 1st.

A name popularly given to the officinal valerian, and to some other plants.

Able to enter into alliance.

Of or pertaining to the genus Allium, or garlic, onions, leeks, etc.; having the smell or taste of garlic or onions.

To connect by alliance; to ally.

An ally; a confederate.

Attractive power; attractiveness.

That attracts; attracting. That attracts.

United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally.

To tie; to unite by some tie.

The act of tying together or attaching by some bond, or the state of being attached.

A large carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South America.

to form shallow cracks in a reticulated pattern on the surface, or in a coating on the surface, of an object.

having cracks in a reticulated pattern, giving an appearance reminiscent of alligator hide; -- said of a surface coating, e.g., of paint, varnish, or glazing

small very elongate sea poachers.

the family of reptiles comprising the alligators, and including the caimans.

See Alignment.

To align.

a small genus of chiefly American herbs.

a European shad, (Alosa alosa).

The European shad (Clupea vulgaris); allice shad. See Alose.

The act of dashing against, or striking upon.

To compose alliteratively; also, to constitute alliteration.

The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: -

Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as, alliterative poetry.

One who alliterates.

A genus of plants, including the onion, garlic, leek, chive, etc.

The angler.

Totality; completeness.

Light, fuel, or food for the whole night.

capable of being allocated.

To distribute or assign; to allot.

The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement.

/Allowed./ The word allocatur expresses the allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer.

Changeable in color.

See Garnet.

Changing color.

The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words.

See Allodium.

Anything held allodially.

The allodial system.

One who holds allodial land.

By allodial tenure.

One who holds an allodium.

Freehold estate; land which is the absolute property of the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud.

Characterized by allogamy.

Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species; cross-fertilization.

Different in nature or kind.

A writing or signature made by some person other than any of the parties thereto; -- opposed to autograph.

of or pertaining to an allograph.

Variability in chemical constitution without variation in crystalline form.

Characterized by allomerism.

of or pertaining to allometry.

the study of the relative growth of a part of an organism in relation to the growth of the whole.

Any one of two or more distinct crystalline forms of the same substance; or the substance having such forms; -- as, carbonate of lime occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite. A variety of pseudomorph which has undergone partial or complete change or substitution of material; -- thus limonite is frequently an allomorph after pyrite.

Of or pertaining to allomorphism.

The property which constitutes an allomorph; the change involved in becoming an allomorph.

To thrust with a sword; to lunge.

The name of another person assumed by the author of a work.

Published under the name of some one other than the author.

To incite dogs by a call; to halloo.

An allopathist.

Of or pertaining to allopathy.

In a manner conformable to allopathy; by allopathic methods.

One who practices allopathy; one who professes allopathy.

That system of medical practice which aims to combat disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the special disease treated; -- a term invented by Hahnemann to designate the ordinary practice, as opposed to homeopathy.

any one of two or more speech sounds that considered variants of the same phoneme. For example, the p sounds of pin and spin are allophones of p; and the t sounds of toe stop and catnip are allophones of t.

of or pertaining to an allophone.

Pertaining to a race or a language neither Aryan nor Semitic.

A speaking to another; an address.

To distribute by lot.

The worship of strange gods.

The act of allotting; assignment.

A depraved appetite; a desire for strange or nonnutritious food, such as clay or starch. Called also pica.

Changed or modified in nutritive power by the process of digestion. Dependent upon other organisms for nutrition; heterotrophic; -- said of plants unable to perform photosynthesis, as all saprophytes; -- opposed to autotrophic.

Of or pertaining to allotropism.

Allotropic property or nature.

To change in physical properties but not in substance.

The property of existing in two or more conditions which are distinct in their physical or chemical relations.

Capable of being allotted.

One to whom anything is allotted; one to whom an allotment is made.

One who allots.