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A plant (Macrochloa tenacissima) of North Africa; also, its fiber, used in paper making.

The lucern (Medicago sativa); -- so called in California, Texas, etc.

An alloy of nickel and silver electroplated with silver.

An ensign; a standard bearer. [Obs.] J. Fletcher.

A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.

The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California.

Same as Alfilaria.

An edible marine fish of California (Rhacochilus toxotes).

A saddlebag. [Sp. Amer.]

In the open-air. Smollett.

ic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervæ, etc.

Pertaining to, or like, algæ.

The Carob, a leguminous tree of the Mediterranean region; also, its edible beans or pods, called St. John's bread.

A term used for the Powder of Algaroth, a white powder which is a compound of trichloride and trioxide of antimony. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic, purgative, and diaphoretic.

gglutinated seeds and husks of the legumes of a South American tree (Inga Marthæ). It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye.

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

The true gazelle.

That branch of mathematics which treats of the relations and properties of quantity by means of letters and other symbols. It is applicable to those relations that are true of every kind of magnitude.

Of or pertaining to algebra; containing an operation of algebra, or deduced from such operation; as, algebraic characters; algebraical writings. Algebraic curve, a curve such that the equation which expresses the relation between the coördinates of its points involves only the ordinary operations of algebra; -- opposed…

By algebraic process.