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A name given to two species of the genus Smyrnium, formerly cultivated and used as celery now is; -- called also horse parsely.

Always; wholly; everywhere. [Obs.] Ulna now he algates must forego. Spenser.

To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof.

Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference. [Now used only predicatively.] The darkness and the light are both alike to thee. Ps. cxxxix. 12.

A coloring principle, C14H6O2(OH)2, found in madder, and now produced artificially from anthracene. It produces the Turkish reds.

A dance in moderate twofold time, invented by the French in the reign of Louis XIV.; -- now mostly found in suites of pieces, like those of Bach and Handel.

k or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered way. I know each lane and every alley green. Milton.

l estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud. Blackstone. Bouvier.

ented with that which Providence allots him. Ten years I will allot to the attainment of knowledge. Johnson.

To own or acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion; as, to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow the truth of a proposition. I allow, with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that Miss Newcome's conduct . . . was highly reprehensible. Thackeray.

Acknowledgment. The censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others. Shak.

A reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned; a covert indication; indirect reference; a hint.

y treaty, league, or confederacy; -- often followed by to or with. O chief! in blood, and now in arms allied. Pope.

The celebrated work of Ptolemy of Alexandria, which contains nearly all that is known of the astronomical observations and theories of the ancients. The name was extended to other similar works.

(Now heard only in the prep. phrase along of.) Along of, Along on, often shortened to Long of, prep. phr., owing to; on account of. [Obs. or Low. Eng.] "On me is not along thin evil fare." Chaucer. "And all this is long of you." Shak. "This increase of price is all along of the foreigners." London Punch.…

urope, containing the lofty mountains of Switzerland, etc. Nor breath of vernal air from snowy alp. Milton. Hills peep o'er hills, and alps on alps arise. Pope.

Of or pertaining to the Alps. [R.] "The Alpen snow." J. Fletcher.

Of or pertaining to the Alps, or to any lofty mountain; as, Alpine snows; Alpine plants.

Formerly the part sung by the highest male, or counter-tenor, voices; now the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, between in tenor and soprano. In instrumental music it now signifies the tenor.

Formerly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc.