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.
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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.
The lofty Brazil-nut tree.
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.
Of or pertaining to the Alps.
A reddish glow seen near sunset or sunrise on the summits of mountains; specif., a reillumination sometimes observed after the summits have passed into shadow, supposed to be due to a curving downward (refraction) of the light rays from the west resulting from the cooling of the air.
A long staff, pointed with iron, used in climbing the Alps.
Pertaining to the Alps, or other high mountains; as, Alpestrine diseases, etc.
The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to A, and hence used to denote the beginning.
To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.
A learner of the alphabet; an abecedarian.
Pertaining to, furnished with, expressed by, or in the order of, the letters of the alphabet; as, alphabetic characters, writing, languages, arrangement.
In an alphabetic manner; in the customary order of the letters.
The science of representing spoken sounds by letters.
The expression of spoken sounds by an alphabet.
To arrange alphabetically; as, to alphabetize a list of words.
of or pertaining to alphanumerics.
a character set that includes letters and digits and punctuation marks.
Divination by means of barley meal.
A crystalline derivative of salicylic acid, used as an antiseptic and antirheumatic.
Of or relating to Alphonso X., the Wise, King of Castile (1252-1284).
A curved wooden horn about three feet long, with a cupped mouthpiece and a bell, used by the Swiss to sound the ranz des vaches and other melodies. Its notes are open harmonics of the tube.
The seed of canary grass (Phalaris Canariensis), used for feeding cage birds.
Growing in Alpine regions.
Of or pertaining to the Alps, or to any lofty mountain; as, Alpine snows; Alpine plants.
a genus of perennial rhizomatous herbs of Asia and Australia and Polynesia having ginger-scented rhizomes.
A climber of the Alps.
A lead ore found in Cornwall, England, and used by potters to give a green glaze to their wares; potter's ore.
Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.
Also.
a region of northeastern France famous for its wines.
a region of northeastern France famous for its wines.
An inhabitant of Alsatia or Alsace in Germany, or of Alsatia or White Friars (a resort of debtors and criminals) in London.
A species of clover with pinkish or white flowers; Trifolium hybridum.
In like manner; likewise.
a genus of tropical American herbs sometimes included in genus Episcia.
a genus comprising the geometrid moths.
genus of evergreen trees or shrubs with white funnel-shaped flowers and milky sap; tropical Africa to southeast Asia and Polynesia.
any of various South American plants of the genus Alstroemeria valued for their handsome umbels of beautiful flowers.
one of many families or subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted; sometimes included in subfamily Amaryllidaceae.
The higher part of the scale. See Alto.
of or pertaining to the Altaic languages.
Of or pertaining to the Altai, a mountain chain in Central Asia.
A raised structure (as a square or oblong erection of stone or wood) on which sacrifices are offered or incense burned to a deity.
a boy who assists a priest at the clebration of the Holy Mass and other forms of public worship; -- also called acolyte.
The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church.
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