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A raised structure (as a square or oblong erection of stone or wood) on which sacrifices are offered or incense burned to a deity. Noah builded an altar unto the Lord. Gen. viii. 20.

to choose among. My decided preference is for the fourth and last of thalternatives. Gladstone.

Alum stone.

An instrument of horn used for collecting painters' colors on the stone in the process of grinding.

om fear, surprise, or wonder; amazement. [Chiefly poetic] The wild, bewildered Of one to stone converted by amaze. Byron.

an amercement is arbitrary. Hence, the act or practice of affeering. [See Affeer.] Blackstone.

of a purple or bluish violet color, of different shades. It is much used as a jeweler's stone. Oriental amethyst, the violet-blue variety of transparent crystallized corundum or sapphire.

To lose. [Obs.] A lodestone fired doth presently amit its proper virtue. Sir T. Browne.

Oölite or roestone; -- written also hammite. [Obs.]

s of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis.

free and common socage, but in this amphibious subordinate class of villein socage. Blackstone.

A kind of figured stone, rugged and beset with eminences, anciently used in divination. [Obs.] Encyc. Brit.

easing or mirthful emotions; to divert. A group children amusing themselves with pushing stones from the top [of the cliff], and watching as they plunged into the lake. Gilpin.

component parts of a subject, each separately, as the words which compose a sentence, the tones of a tune, or the simple propositions which enter into an argument. It is opposed to synthesis.

projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment. Though but an angle reached him of the stone. Dryden.

g from anger; acting as if moved by anger; wearing the marks of anger; as, angry words or tones; an angry sky; angry waves. "An angry countenance." Prov. xxv. 23.

To atone; to be punished for. And grievously hath Cæzar answered it. Shak.

A coal-black marble, usually emitting a fetid smell when rubbed; -- called also stinkstone and swinestone.

Human nature. [R.] Gladstone.

dy formed from albumin by pancreatic and gastric digestion. It is convertible into antipeptone.