A house appropriated for the use of the poor; a poorhouse.
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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.
A chaplain. A vicar of a church.
The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.
In the proper position of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south.
An instrument for taking azimuths and altitudes simultaneously.
To become, in some respects, different; to vary; to change; as, the weather alters almost daily; rocks or minerals alter by exposure.
The quality of being alterable; alterableness.
Capable of being altered.
The quality of being alterable; variableness; alterability.
In an alterable manner.
An alterative.
The act of altering or making different.
A medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations.
To contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle.
Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest.
Characterized by wrangling; scolding.
The state or quality of being other; a being otherwise.
Acting by turns; alternate.
Alternateness; alternation.
Composed of alternate layers, as some rocks.
A usage, among diplomats, of rotation in precedence among representatives of equal rank, sometimes determined by lot and at other times in regular order. The practice obtains in the signing of treaties and conventions between nations.
To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; -- followed by with; as, the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other.
In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.
The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns.
The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear.
An offer of two things, one of which may be chosen, but not both; a choice between two things, so that if one is taken, the other must be left.
In the manner of alternatives, or that admits the choice of one out of two things.
The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two.
An electric generator or dynamo for producing alternating currents.
Succession by turns; alternation.
A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks. An ornamental shrub (Hibiscus Syriacus) of the Mallow family.
Asparagine.
The national assembly or parliament of Iceland. See Thing, n., 8.
Although.
An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn.
Grant all this; be it that; supposing that; notwithstanding; though.
Lofty speech; pompous language.
High-sounding; pompous in speech.
An instrument for taking altitudes, as a quadrant, sextant, etc.
The art of measuring altitudes, or heights.
See Tincal.
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