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Allision

The act of dashing against, or striking upon.

Alliteral

Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration.

Alliterate

To compose alliteratively; also, to constitute alliteration.

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: -

Alliterative

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

Allium

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

Allnight

Light, fuel, or food for the whole night.

Allocate

To distribute or assign; to allot.

Allocation

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

Allocatur

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

Allocution

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

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.

Allogamy

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

Allograph

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

Allomerism

Variability in chemical constitution without variation in crystalline form.

allometry

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

Allomorph

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.

Allomorphism

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

Allonge

To thrust with a sword; to lunge.

Allonym

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

Allonymous

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

Alloo

To incite dogs by a call; to halloo.

Allopathically

In a manner conformable to allopathy; by allopathic methods.

Allopathist

One who practices allopathy; one who professes allopathy.

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.

allophone

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.

Alloquy

A speaking to another; an address.

Allot

To distribute by lot.

allotriophagy

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

allotrophic

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.

Allotropize

To change in physical properties but not in substance.

Allotropy Allotropism

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

Allottee

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

Allow

To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.

Allowableness

The quality of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety.

Allowance

To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were allowanced.

Alloxan

An oxidation product of uric acid. It is of a pale reddish color, readily soluble in water or alcohol.

Alloxanate

A combination of alloxanic acid and a base or base or positive radical.

Alloxanic

Of or pertaining to alloxan; -- applied to an acid obtained by the action of soluble alkalies on alloxan.

Alloxantin

A substance produced by acting upon uric with warm and very dilute nitric acid.

Alloy

To form a metallic compound.

Alloyage

The act or art of alloying metals; also, the combination or alloy.

Allspice

The berry of the pimento (Eugenia pimenta), a tree of the West Indies; a spice of a mildly pungent taste, and agreeably aromatic; Jamaica pepper; pimento. It has been supposed to combine the flavor of cinnamon, nutmegs, and cloves; and hence the name. The name is also given to other aromatic shrubs; as, the Carolina allspice (Calycanthus floridus); wild allspice (Lindera benzoin), called also spicebush, spicewood, and feverbush.

Allude

To compare allusively; to refer (something) as applicable.

Allumette

A match for lighting candles, lamps, etc.

Alluminor

An illuminator of manuscripts and books; a limner.

Allurement

The act alluring; temptation; enticement.

Allurer

One who, or that which, allures.

Alluring

That allures; attracting; charming; tempting.

Allusion

A figurative or symbolical reference.

Allusively

Figuratively [Obs.]; by way of allusion; by implication, suggestion, or insinuation.

Alluvial

Pertaining to, contained in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.

Alluvion

Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank.

Alluvium

Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas.

Allwork

Domestic or other work of all kinds; as, a maid of allwork, that is, a general servant.

Ally

See Alley, a marble or taw.

Allyl

An organic radical, C3H5, existing especially in oils of garlic and mustard.

Allylene

A gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H4, homologous with acetylene; propine.

Almacantar

Same as Almucantar. A recently invented instrument for observing the heavenly bodies as they cross a given almacantar circle. See Almucantar.

Almadie Almadia

A bark canoe used by the Africans. A boat used at Calicut, in India, about eighty feet long, and six or seven broad.

Almagest

The celebrated work of Ptolemy of Alexandria, which contains nearly all that is known of the astronomical observations and theories of the ancients. The name was extended to other similar works.

Almagra

A fine, deep red ocher, somewhat purplish, found in Spain. It is the sil atticum of the ancients. Under the name of Indian red it is used for polishing glass and silver.

Almanac

A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and various statistics are often added, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc.

Almightiness

Omnipotence; infinite or boundless power; unlimited might.

Almighty

Unlimited in might; omnipotent; all-powerful; irresistible.

Almond

The fruit of the almond tree.

almond-shaped

having the shape of an almond, i.e. ellipsoidal with somewhat pointed ends.

Almoner

One who distributes alms, esp. the doles and alms of religious houses, almshouses, etc.; also, one who dispenses alms for another, as the almoner of a prince, bishop, etc.

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