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.

Allotment.

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

Praiseworthy; laudable.

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

In an allowable manner.

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.

By allowance; admittedly.

An approver or abettor.

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

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

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

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

To form a metallic compound.

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

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.

Altogether.

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

A match for lighting candles, lamps, etc.

An illuminator of manuscripts and books; a limner.

Allurement.

Gait; bearing.

The act alluring; temptation; enticement.

One who, or that which, allures.

That allures; attracting; charming; tempting.

A figurative or symbolical reference.

Figurative; symbolical.

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

The quality of being allusive.

Allusive.

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.

Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank.

Alluvial.

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.

Everywhere.

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

See Alley, a marble or taw.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Same as Alme.

A German. German.

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.

The common red variety of garnet.

An Egyptian dancing girl; an Alma.

See Ambry.

See Alms.

All-powerful; almighty.

With almighty power.

Omnipotence; infinite or boundless power; unlimited might.

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

An almoner.

The fruit of the almond tree.

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

See Almandine

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.

The office of an almoner.

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

Alms.

Nearly; well nigh; all but; for the greatest part.

See Almonry.

Anything given gratuitously to relieve the poor, as money, food, or clothing; a gift of charity.

An act of charity.

Persons supported by alms; almsmen.

A giver of alms.

The giving of alms.

A house appropriated for the use of the poor; a poorhouse.

A recipient of alms.

A small circle of the sphere parallel to the horizon; a circle or parallel of altitude. Two stars which have the same almucantar have the same altitude. See Almacantar.

Same as Amice, a hood or cape.

A measure for liquids in several countries. In Portugal the Lisbon almude is about 4.4, and the Oporto almude about 6.6, gallons U. S. measure. In Turkey the /almud/ is about 1.4 gallons.

Measurement (of cloth) by the ell; also, a duty for such measurement.

A measure by the ell; formerly a sworn officer in England, whose duty was to inspect and measure woolen cloth, and fix upon it a seal.

any plant of the genus Alocasia having large showy basal leaves and boat-shaped spathe and reddish berries.

The wood of the agalloch.

One of many families or subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted.

a purgative made from the leaves of aloe. Same as aloe{3}.

A medicine containing chiefly aloes.

Above; on top of.

One of an ancient sect who rejected St. John's Gospel and the Apocalypse, which speak of Christ as the Logos.

Unreasonableness; absurdity.

A bitter purgative principle in aloes.

Divination by means of salt.

Solely; simply; exclusively.

Exclusive.

A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness.

By the length of, as distinguished from across.

Along the shore or coast.

See Longshoreman.

Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree.

Along.

Away from; clear from.

State of being aloof.

Loss of the hair; baldness.

A practitioner who tries to prevent or cure baldness.

a genus of arctic foxes.

a family of fish comprising the thresher sharks.

type genus of the family Alopiidae; in some classifications considered a genus of the family Lamnidae.

the genus comprising the most common varieties of shad. It replaces the older term Clupea. See also shad.

The European shad (Alosa alosa formerly Clupea alosa); -- called also allice shad or allis shad. The name is sometimes applied to the American shad (Alosa sapidissima formerly Clupea sapidissima). See Shad.

One of the several species of howling monkeys of South America. See Howler{2}.

With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly.

Below; in a lower part.

A bullfinch.

An animal of Peru (Lama paco), having long, fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of the llama.