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A diphthong in the Latin language; used also by the Saxon writers. It answers to the Gr. æ was generally replaced by a, the long e or ee. In derivatives from Latin words with ae, it is mostly superseded by e. For most words found with this initial combination, the reader will therefore search under the letter E.…

A stone, or metallic mass, which has fallen to the earth from distant space; a meteorite; a meteoric stone.

s (Myrmica barbata) found in Texas clears circular areas and carefully cultivates its favorite grain, known as ant rice.

An exclamation expressive of sorrow, pity, or apprehension of evil; -- in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas the day, like alack a day, or alas the white.

One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory. Hume.

To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to allegorize it.

real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.

e change or substitution of material; -- thus limonite is frequently an allomorph after pyrite. G. H. Williams.

A variety of shale or clay slate, containing iron pyrites, the decomposition of which leads to the formation of alum, which often effloresces on the rock.

A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.

or phrases. The life Homer has been written by amassing all the traditions and hints the writers could meet with. Pope.

uble-dealer; one equally ready to act on either side in party disputes. The rest are hypocrites, ambidexters, so many turning pictures -- a lion on one side, a lamb on the other. Burton.

An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist.

the whole species). Amphibole is a constituent of many crystalline rocks, as syenite, diorite, most varieties of trachyte, etc. See Hornblende.

The state of being amused; pleasurable excitement; that which amuses; diversion. His favorite amusements were architecture and gardening. Macaulay.

ent of fusel oil. It is used as a source of amyl compounds, such as amyl acetate, amyl nitrite, etc.

rch, as in the Seven Asiatic churches. [Archaic] Unto-the angel of the church of Ephesus write. Rev. ii. 1.

Strong partiality to the principles and rites of the Church of England.

ntermediate groupings, all in regular subordination, but variously arranged by different writers.

The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness; as, he recited the story with great animation. Suspended animation, temporary suspension of the vital functions, as in persons nearly drowned.