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A mineral of the feldspar family, triclinic in crystallization, and in composition a silicate of alumina and soda. It is a common constituent of granite and of various igneous rocks. See Feldspar.

Of all; -- used in composition; as, alderbest, best of all, alderwisest, wisest of all. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The condition, position, or office of an alderman. Fabyan.

On or toward the lee, or the side away from the wind; the opposite of aweather. The helm of a ship is alee when pressed close to the lee side. Hard alee, or Luff alee, an order to put the helm to the lee side.

Having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.

The first day of April, a day on which sportive impositions are practiced. The first of April, some do say, Is set apart for All Fools' Day. Poor Robin's Almanack (1760).

of cerium. It is usually black in color, opaque, and is related to epidote in form and composition.

The act of alleging or positively asserting.

To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact.

The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.

Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young.

The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement. Hallam.

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.

A combination of alloxanic acid and a base or base or positive radical.

Pertaining to, contained in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.

Matter deposited by an inundation or the action of flowing water; alluvium. The golden alluvions are there [in California and Australia] spread over a far wider space: they are found not only on the banks of rivers, and in their beds, but are scattered over the surface of vast plains. R. Cobden.

Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Lyell.

A sensitized paper for obtaining positives by artificial light. It is coated with gelatin containing silver bromide and chloride. [Eng.]

trating power emitted by radium and other radioactive substances, and shown to consist of positively charged particles (perhaps particles of helium) having enormous velocities but small masses. They are slightly deflected by a strong magnetic or electric field.

In the proper position of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south. Shipley.