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ement, or artificial stone, consisting chiefly of magnesia and silica; -- called also albolite.

Quality of being alible.

Capability of being alienated. "The alienability of the domain." Burke.

The segment of the body of an insect to which the wings are attached; the thorax. Kirby.

Applied to those days when the holy sacrifice is not offered. Shipley.

Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration.

To employ or place so as to make alliteration. Skeat.

The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: - Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness. Milton. Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. Tennyson.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as, alliterative poetry. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ly, adv. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ness, n.

One who alliterates.

The quality of being alterable; alterableness.

Lovableness. Jer. Taylor.

The quality of being amenable; amenableness. Coleridge.

The quality of being amiable; amiableness; sweetness of disposition. Every excellency is a degree of amiability. Jer. Taylor.

The quality of being amicable; friendliness; amicableness. Ash.

The quality of being amissible; possibility of being lost. [R.] Notions of popular rights and the amissibility of sovereign power for misconduct were alternately broached by the two great religious parties of Europe. Hallam.

Removal; a putting away. [Obs.] Bp. Ward (1673).

Liability to be removed or dismissed from office. [R.] T. Jefferson.

An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist.

size. The cathedral of Lincoln . . . is a magnificent structure, proportionable to the amplitude of the diocese. Fuller.