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A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes is deficient or in a morbid state. An albino has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of…

A mineral of the feldspar family, triclinic in crystallization, and in composition a silicate of alumina and soda. It is a common constituent of granite and of various igneous rocks. See Feldspar.

alt with alcohol, in which the latter plays a part analogous to that of water of crystallization. Graham.

Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species; cross-fertilization.

The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. Without the king's will or the state's allowance. Shak.

(esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twenty-four molecules of water of crystallization.

A secret organization in the United States, formed in Iowa in 1887, ostensibly for the protection of American institutions by keeping Roman Catholics out of public office. Abbrev. commonly to A. P .A.

A state of being amorphous; esp. a state of being without crystallization even in the minutest particles, as in glass, opal, etc.

Without crystallization in the ultimate texture of a solid substance; uncrystallized.

Same as Amortize, Amortization, etc.

Same as Amortization.

The part of a polariscope which receives the light after polarization, and exhibits its properties.

Anathematization. [Obs.] We find a law of Justinian forbidding anathematisms to be pronounced against the Jewish Hellenists. J. Taylor.

he science which treats of the structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization. Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together, according to the knowledge of them which is given us by anatomy. Dryden.

The state of being arborescent; the resemblance to a tree in minerals, or crystallizations, or groups of crystals in that form; as, the arborescence produced by precipitating silver.

Resembling a tree; becoming woody in stalk; dendritic; having crystallizations disposed like the branches and twigs of a tree. "Arborescent hollyhocks." Evelyn.

An adherent of the Armenian Church, an organization similar in some doctrines and practices to the Greek Church, in others to the Roman Catholic.

n he arrived at manhood. Rogers. We arrive at knowledge of a law of nature by the generalization of facts. McCosh. If at great things thou wouldst arrive. Milton.

on; and many are formed on verbs ending in the Greek formative -ize (Fr. -ise); as, civilization, demoralization.

See Army organization, Switzerland.