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Quality of being alible.

Capability of being alienated. "The alienability of the domain." Burke.

The segment of the body of an insect to which the wings are attached; the thorax. Kirby.

Applied to those days when the holy sacrifice is not offered. Shipley.

The quality which constitutes an alkali; alkaline property. Thomson.

A silicate containing a large amount of cerium. It is usually black in color, opaque, and is related to epidote in form and composition.

Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration.

To employ or place so as to make alliteration. Skeat.

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.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as, alliterative poetry. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ly, adv. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ness, n.

One who alliterates.

See Garnet.

Allotropic property or nature.

The quality of being alterable; alterableness.

The state or quality of being other; a being otherwise. [R.] For outness is but the feeling of otherness (alterity) rendered intuitive, or alterity visually represented. Coleridge.

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

Space extended upward; height; the perpendicular elevation of an object above its foundation, above the ground, or above a given level, or of one object above another; as, the altitude of a mountain, or of a bird above the top of a tree.

Of or pertaining to height; as, altitudinal measurements.

Lofty in doctrine, aims, etc. [R.] Coleridge.

Alum stone.