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A frame on which clothes are aired or dried.

es of alder are usually shrubs or small trees. Black alder. (a) A European shrub (Rhamnus frangula); Alder buckthorn. (b) An American species of holly (Ilex verticillata), bearing red berries.

The art of calculating with any species of notation; as, the algorithms of fractions, proportions, surds, etc.

gue; as, matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state; an alliance between France and England.

, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth. After making the largest allowance for fraud. Macaulay.

people. Acts x. 2. Alms are but the vehicles of prayer. Dryden. Tenure by free alms. See Frankalmoign. Blackstone.

n shall not live by bread alone. Luke iv. 4. The citizens alone should be at the expense. Franklin.

ed after the summits have passed into shadow, supposed to be due to a curving downward (refraction) of the light rays from the west resulting from the cooling of the air.

A North American herb (Heuchera Americana) of the Saxifrage family, whose root has astringent properties.

A fragrant flower. Tennyson.

A species of Anthospermum, a shrub with evergreen leaves, which, when bruised, emit a fragrant odor.

y of being ambidexas, ambidexterity of argumentation. Sterne. Ignorant I was of the human frame, and of its latent powers, as regarded speed, force, and ambidexterity. De Quincey.

A fragrant substance which is the chief constituent of ambergris.

Formerly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc.

ture of, ambrosia; delighting the taste or smell; delicious. "Ambrosial food." "Ambrosial fragrance." Milton.

Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye. -- Am`e*trop"ic, a.

Produced by the refraction of light, as seen through water; as, anaclastic curves.

That part of optics which treats of the refraction of light; -- commonly called dioptrics. Encyc. Brit.

A collection of literary fragments.

ra, or Indian millet. Several East Indian species, as A. nardus and A. schonanthus, yield fragrant oils, used in perfumery.