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A winglike organ, or part.

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

pprehension of evil; -- in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas the day, like alack a day, or alas the white.

Winged; having wings, or side appendages like wings.

any plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc.

Like or pertaining to the Alcyonaria. -- n.

Relating to, becoming to, or like, an alderman; characteristic of an alderman.

Pertaining to, or like, an alderman.

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

consisting in English of twelve syllables. The needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Pope.

Pertaining to, or like, algæ.

Of or pertaining to the algæ, or seaweeds; abounding with, or like, seaweed.

Wing-shaped; winglike.

Like ale; as, an alish taste.

run, on all fours (Fig.), to be on the same footing; to correspond (with) exactly; to be alike in all the circumstances to be considered. "This example is on all fours with the other." "No simile can go on all fours." Macaulay.

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

An allaying; that which allays; mitigation. [Obs.] The like allayment could I give my grief. Shak.

vented by the French in the reign of Louis XIV.; -- now mostly found in suites of pieces, like those of Bach and Handel.

Any machine with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator; as, (a) (Metal Working)

To like; to be suited or pleased with. [Obs.] How allow you the model of these clothes Massinger.