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

An aliquant part of a number or quantity is one which does not divide it without leaving a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquant part of

An aliquot part of a number or quantity is one which will divide it without a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquot part of 15. Opposed to aliquant.

Any. [Obs.] "Without all remedy." Shak.

That which is alleged, asserted, or declared; positive assertion; formal averment I thought their allegation but reasonable. Steele.

Am eagle without beak or feet, with expanded wings. Burke.

which is the absolute property of the owner; real 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.

Variability in chemical constitution without variation in crystalline form.

To sanction; to invest; to intrust. [Obs.] Thou shalt be . . . allowed with absolute power. Shak.

ing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. Without the king's will or the state's allowance. Shak.

A baser metal mixed with a finer. Fine silver is silver without the mixture of any baser metal. Alloy is baser metal mixed with it. Locke.

The act alluring; temptation; enticement. Though Adam by his wife's allurement fell. Milton.

Nearly; well nigh; all but; for the greatest part. Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. Acts xxvi. 28. Almost never, scarcely ever. -- Almost nothing, scarcely anything.

Of or by itself; by themselves; without any thing more or any one else; without a sharer; only. Man shall not live by bread alone. Luke iv. 4. The citizens alone should be at the expense. Franklin.

A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness. [R.] Bp. Montagu.

Without sympathy; unfavorably. To make the Bible as from the hand of God, and then to look at it aloof and with caution, is the worst of all impieties. I. Taylor.

le of being altered. Our condition in this world is mutable and uncertain, alterable by a thousand accidents. Rogers.

The act of altering or making different. Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. Hooker.

medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations.

Although. [Reformed spelling] Alt"horn`, n. Etym: [Alt + horn.] (Mus.)