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te and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc.

An ornamental evergreen shrub (Rhamnus alaternus) belonging to the buckthorns.

A soft ornamental terra-cotta pottery, sold in the biscuit state for decorating.

A name applied to several large fishes of the Mackerel family, esp. Orcynus alalonga. One species (Orcynus thynnus), common in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, is called in New England the horse mackerel; the tunny. [Written also albacore.]

An ancient name of England, still retained in poetry. In that nook-shotten isle of Albion. Shak.

A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc.

A small ornamental building with seats, or an arched seat, in a pleasure ground; a garden bower. Cowper.

; also, any of various derivatives of this. The same reaction has been applied, under the name of aldol condensation, to the production of many compounds.

vernalis) of the Herring family. It is called also ellwife, ellwhop, branch herring. The name is locally applied to other related species.

A name given to two species of the genus Smyrnium, formerly cultivated and used as celery now is; -- called also horse parsely.

ibes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence.

Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture.

Otherwise; otherwise called; -- a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson.

A compound cordial, in the form of a confection, deriving its name from the kermes insect, its principal ingredient.

The name of the Supreme Being, in use among the Arabs and the Mohammedans generally.

A name popularly given to the officinal valerian, and to some other plants.

The name of another person assumed by the author of a work.

Published under the name of some one other than the author.

eably aromatic; Jamaica pepper; pimento. It has been supposed to combine the flavor of cinnamon, nutmegs, and cloves; and hence the name. The name is also given to other aromatic shrubs; as, the Carolina allspice (Calycanthus floridus); wild allspice (Lindera benzoin), called also spicebush, spicewood, and feverbush.…

arly all that is known of the astronomical observations and theories of the ancients. The name was extended to other similar works.