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The act or process of making white. [Obs.]

To distribute or assign; to allot. Burke.

An allotment or apportionment; as, an allocation of shares in a company. The allocation of the particular portions of Palestine to its successive inhabitants. A. R. Stanley.

"Allowed." The word allocatur expresses the allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer.

The contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle.

dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest. "Stormy altercations." Macaulay.

Characterized by wrangling; scolding. [R.] Fielding.

To amplify. [Obs.] Bailey.

or a dilating upon all the particulars of a subject. Exaggeration is a species of amplification. Brande & C. I shall summarily, without any amplification at all, show in what manner defects have been supplied. Sir J. Davies.

Amplificatory.

Serving to amplify or enlarge; amplificative. Morell.

An anacatharic medicine; an expectorant or an emetic.

A member of the Church of England who contends for its catholic character; more specifically, a High Churchman.

pt many doctrines and practices which they maintain were those of the primitive, or true, Catholic Church, of which they consider the Church of England to be the lineal descendant.

Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. See Aphips.

Efficacious against catarrh. -- n.

The part of a vacuum tube opposite the cathode. Upon it the cathode rays impinge.

To append. [Obs.]

An appendage. [Obs.]

Applied or put to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number (Math.), one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of any conic section, and bounded by the curve.