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Enticement; allurement. [Obs.] Bailey.

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

The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense.

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

The act of alleviating; a lightening of weight or severity; mitigation; relief.

A rule relating to the solution of questions concerning the compounding or mixing of different ingredients, or ingredients of different qualities or values.

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 dashing against, or striking upon. The boisterous allision of the sea. Woodward.

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.

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

The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words.

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

An overflowing; an inundation; a flood. Lyell.

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

Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest. "Stormy altercations." Macaulay.

The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear.

The tanning or dressing of leather. [Obs.] Blount.

The act or operation of compounding mercury with another metal; -- applied particularly to the process of separating gold and silver from their ores by mixing them with mercury. Ure.

t or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing. [Obs.] [I] used no ambition to commend my deeds. Milton.

One excessively ambitious. [R.]