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Of, pertaining to, or like, alabaster; as alabastrine limbs.

The first Sunday after Easter Sunday, properly Albless Sunday, because in the early church those who had been baptized on Easter eve laid aside on the following Saturday their white albs which had been put on after baptism.

nspect the measures used in public houses. But the office is a sinecure. [Also called aletaster.] [Eng.]

ndians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence.

With one breve, or four minims, to measure, and sung faster like four crotchets; in quick common time; -- indicated in the time signature by

n of the Transition zone extending across the northern United States from New England to eastern Dakota, and including also most of Pennsylvania and the mountainous region as far south as northern Georgia.

d is used in medicine as an expectorant and resolvent, and for the formation of certain plasters.

center of the sun, or a star, at its rising or setting. At the rising, the amplitude is eastern or ortive: at the setting, it is western, occiduous, or occasive. It is also northern or southern, when north or south of the equator.

Of or pertaining to Anam, to southeastern Asia. -- n.

annual meetings of religious and benevolent societies are held in Boston and New York. [Eastern U. S.]

of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.

Pertaining to the time before the Passover, or before Easter.

The Sunday after Easter; Low Sunday.

The repetition of words in an inverse order; as, the master of the servant and the servant of the master.

r other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.

rcular termination, and, most often, projecting from the east end. In early churches the Eastern apse was occupied by seats for the bishop and clergy. Hence:

er; a governor. Though Heaven be shut, And Heaven's high Arbitrators sit secure. Milton. Masters of their own terms and arbitrators of a peace. Addison.

A chief of a monastery, corresponding to abbot in the Roman Catholic church.

Pertaining to a master builder, or to architecture; evincing skill in designing or construction; constructive. "Architectonic wisdom." Boyle. These architectonic functions which we had hitherto thought belonged. J. C. Shairp.

Those branches of learning which are taught in the academical course of colleges; as, master of arts. In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts. Pope. Four years spent in the arts (as they are called in colleges) is, perhaps, laying too laborious a foundation. Goldsmith.