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Gay; cheerful; sprightly. [Obs.] Bacon.

To allay or alleviate; to lighten. [Obs.] That shall alegge this bitter blast. Spenser.

Ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma).

A house where ale is retailed; hence, a tippling house. Macaulay.

The imperial standard of the Turkish Empire.

Belonging to the Alemanni, a confederacy of warlike German tribes.

An apparatus formerly used in distillation, usually made of glass or metal. It has mostly given place to the retort and worm still. Used also metaphorically. The alembic of a great poet's imagination. Brimley.

The salt of wisdom of the alchemists, a double salt composed of the chlorides of ammonium and mercury. It was formerly used as a stimulant. Brande & C.

See under Lace.

At full length; lenghtwise. Chaucer.

Not having scales. -- n.

A pole set up as the sign of an alehouse. [Obs.]

chronic skin affection terminating in an ulcer, most commonly of the face. It is endemic along the Mediterranean, and is probably due to a specific bacillus. Called also Aleppo ulcer, Biskara boil, Delhi boil, Oriental sore, etc.

One of the cultivated forms of Andropogon Halepensis (syn. Sorghum Halepense). See Andropogon, below.

Brisk; nimble; moving with celerity. An alert young fellow. Addison.

In an alert manner; nimbly.

The quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.

A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a "bush." [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Aleconner. [Eng.]

The science which treats of the nature of truth and evidence. Sir W. Hamilton.