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Anything shaped like an almond. Specifically: (Anat.)

persuadest me to be a Christian. Acts xxvi. 28. Almost never, scarcely ever. -- Almost nothing, scarcely anything.

Anything given gratuitously to relieve the poor, as money, food, or clothing; a gift of charity. A devout man . . . which gave much alms to the people. Acts x. 2. Alms are but the vehicles of prayer. Dryden. Tenure by free alms. See Frankalmoign. Blackstone.

's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solitary; -- applied to a person or thing. Alone on a wide, wide sea. Coleridge. It is not good that the man should be alone. Gen. ii. 18.

to Long of, prep. phr., owing to; on account of. [Obs. or Low. Eng.] "On me is not along thin evil fare." Chaucer. "And all this is long of you." Shak. "This increase of price is all along of the foreigners." London Punch.

At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away. Our palace stood aloof from streets. Dryden.

Fig.: Something lofty, or massive, or very hard to be surmounted.

A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton.

gilds all objects, but it alters none. Pope. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Ps. lxxxix. 34.

The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition. Ere long might perceive Strange alteration in me. Milton. Appius Claudius admitted to the senate the sons of those who had been slaves; by which, and succeeding alterations, that council degenerated into a most corrupt. Swift…

That which alternates with something else; vicissitude. [R.] Grateful alternates of substantial. Prior.

The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear.

Offering a choice of two things.

In the manner of alternatives, or that admits the choice of one out of two things.

A beehive, or something resembling a beehive. Barret.

A mixture or compound of different things.

Amber color, or anything amber-colored; a clear light yellow; as, the amber of the sky.

Something that surrounds or invests; as, air . . . being a perpetual ambient. Sir H. Wotton.

Circuit or compass. His great parts did not live within a small ambit. Milward.

an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition: By that sin fell the angels. Shak. The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres. Burke.