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Relating to the alcoholometer or alcoholometry. The alcoholometrical strength of spirituous liquors. Ure.

An instrument to ascertain the strength of alkalies, or the quantity of alkali in a mixture.

The art or process of ascertaining the strength of alkalies, or the quantity present in alkaline mixtures.

le number of; any whatever; every; as, all the wheat; all the land; all the year; all the strength; all happiness; all abundance; loss of all power; beyond all doubt; you will see us all (or all of us). Prove all things: hold fast that which is good. 1 Thess. v. 21.

To diminish in strength; to abate; to subside. "When the rage allays." Shak.

A narrow passage or way in a city, as distinct from a public street. Gay.

stance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away. Our palace stood aloof from streets. Dryden.

A walk or passage; -- applied to passages of various kinds. The sides of every street were covered with fresh alures of marble. T. Warton.

The strawberry finch, a small Indian song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill. [Written also amaduvad and avadavat.]

he wounded as soon as possible. Often used adjectively; as, an ambulance wagon; ambulance stretcher; ambulance corps.

er; a gallant. [R.] Milton. It was the custom for an amorist to impress the name of his mistress in the dust, or upon the damp earth, with letters fixed upon his shoe. Southey.

The strength of a current of electricity carried by a conductor or generated by a machine, measured in ampères.

The quantity of electricity delivered in one hour by a current whose average strength is one ampère. It is used as a unit of quantity, and is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms Ampère minute and Ampère second are sometimes similarly used.

An instrument for measuring the strength of an electrical current in ampères.

A branch of a river that reënters, or anastomoses with, the main stream; also, less properly, a branch which loses itself in sandy soil. [Australia]

Recovery of strength after sickness.

Restorative; giving strength after disease. -- n.

The application of the principles of anatomy, as in art. The stretched and vivid anatomism of their [i. e., the French] great figure painters. The London Spectator.

To cast anchor; to come to anchor; as, our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream.

l in the form of a leaf, more or less conventionalized, used to decorate and sometimes to strengthen an angle. -- Angle meter, an instrument for measuring angles, esp. for ascertaining the dip of strata. -- Angle shaft (Arch.), an enriched angle bead, often having a capital or base, or both. -- Curvilineal angle, on…