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d, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; -- followed by with; as, the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other. Rage, shame, and grief alternate in his breast. J. Philips. Different species alternating with each other. Kirwan.

A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.

ng of large whitish or grayish globular cloudlets with shaded portions, often grouped in flocks or rows.

ng iron pyrites, the decomposition of which leads to the formation of alum, which often effloresces on the rock.

sweet alyssum (A. maritimum), cultivated for bouquets, bears small, white, sweet- scented flowers.

A fragrant flower. Tennyson.

An imaginary flower supposed never to fade. [Poetic]

Unfading, as the poetic amaranth; undying. They only amaranthine flower on earth Is virtue. Cowper.

A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often varieg…

Characterized by containing the rudiments of both flowers and leaves; -- applied to a bud.

A species of inflorescence; a catkin. The globular ament of a buttonwood. Coues.

Resembling, or consisting of, an ament or aments; as, the chestnut has an amentaceous inflorescence.

A genus of leguminous shrubs, having long clusters of purple flowers; false or bastard indigo. Longfellow.

calculating fall of pressure in distributing mains, equivalent to a current of one ampère flowing through one foot of conductor.

Destitute of flowers; flowerless.

West Indian fruit like the mango in taste, sometimes pickled; also, the tree (Grias cauliflora) bearing this fruit.

Of or pertaining to the ancon or elbow. "The olecranon on anconeal process." Flower.

Moving moderately slow, but distinct and flowing; quicker than larghetto, and slower than allegretto. -- n.

Andean; as, Andine flora.

Having perfect and staminate flowers on different plants. -- An`dro*di*o"cism, -di*e"cism (#), n.