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To lighten or lessen the force or weight of. [Obs.] Should no others join capable to alleviate the expense. Evelyn. Those large bladders . . . conduce much to the alleviating of the body [of flying birds]. Ray.

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

tion of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: - Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness. Milton. Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. Tennyson.

The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement. Hallam.

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

A writing or signature made by some person other than any of the parties thereto; -- opposed to autograph.

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

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

A speaking to another; an address. [Obs.]

edgment. The censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others. Shak.

Any steel containing a notable quantity of some other metal alloyed with the iron, usually chromium, nickel, manganese, tungsten, or vanadium.

he 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.

ting to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.

Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Lyell.

Domestic or other work of all kinds; as, a maid of allwork, that is, a general servant.

lation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love. These three did love each other dearly well, And with so firm affection were allied. Spenser. The virtue nearest to our vice allied. Pope.

n of the astronomical observations and theories of the ancients. The name was extended to other similar works.

n almanac, or year book, containing astronomical calculations (lunar, stellar, etc.), and other information useful to mariners.

A kind of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter. Chambers.

doles and alms of religious houses, almshouses, etc.; also, one who dispenses alms for another, as the almoner of a prince, bishop, etc.