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One prone to sound or excite alarms, especially, needless alarms. Macaulay.

light, and are often seen at great distances from the land. They are found chiefly in the southern hemisphere.

ass, formerly used for various utensils; hence, a trumpet. [Obs.] Put to their mouths the sounding alchemy. Milton.

A small South American dog, domesticated by the aborigines.

Sour ale; vinegar made of ale. Cecil.

An alarm from a real or threatened attack; a sudden attack; also, a bugle sound to give warning. "We have had an alert." Farrow. On the alert, on the lookout or watch against attack or danger; ready to act.

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

eir territory formerly including practically all of Canada east of the 115th meridian and south of Hudson's Bay and the part of the United States east of the Mississippi and north of Tennessee and Virginia, with the exception of the territory occupied by the northern Iroquoian tribes. There are nearly 100,000 Indians o…

-- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion. An alien sound of melancholy. Wordsworth. Alien enemy (Law), one who owes allegiance to a government at war with ours. Abbott.

From another source; from elsewhere; as, a case proved aliunde; evidence aliunde.

Capable of being alleged or affirmed. The most authentic examples allegeable in the case. South.

eastern Dakota, and including also most of Pennsylvania and the mountainous region as far south as northern Georgia.

o pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South America.

being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety. South.

by the king's highway. Numb. xxi. 22. He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. Coleridge.

One of the several species of howling monkeys of South America. See Howler, 2.

den horn about three feet long, with a cupped mouthpiece and a bell, used by the Swiss to sound the ranz des vaches and other melodies. Its notes are open harmonics of the tube.

The science of representing spoken sounds by letters.

The expression of spoken sounds by an alphabet. Encyc. Brit.

osition of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south. Shipley.