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d; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: sustenance; means of support. Aliments of theiBacon.

The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.

A sterile plain, containing an excess of alkali, at the bottom of an undrained basin in an arid region; a playa.

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

of shares in a company. The allocation of the particular portions of Palestine to its successive inhabitants. A. R. Stanley.

An accession of land gradually washed to the shore or bank by the flowing of water. See Accretion.

Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal. And bid alternate passions fall and rise. Pope.

In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.

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.

Succession by turns; alternation. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

and so formed as to be fitted together, the neck of one into the bottom of another in succession; -- used in the process of sublimation. Ure.

Art or process of producing, and printing from, aluminium plates, after the manner of ordinary lithography. -- A*lu`mi*no*graph"ic (#), a.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, alveoli or little cells, sacs, or sockets. Alveolar processes, the processes of the maxillary bones, containing the sockets of the teeth.

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.

An instrument of horn used for collecting painters' colors on the stone in the process of grinding.

One excessively ambitious. [R.]

Pertaining to a walk. [R.] The princess of whom his majesty had an ambulatory view in his travels. Sir H. Wotton.

Correction of an error in a writ or process.

The process of Americanizing.

Any fermentation process by which ammonia is formed, as that by which urea is converted into ammonium carbonate when urine is exposed to the air.