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ee, usually growing in moist land, and belonging to the genus Alnus. The wood is used by turners, etc.; the bark by dyers and tanners. In the U. S. the species 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 vertic…

Supplying food; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap.

ter, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue. Fixed alkalies, potash and soda. -- Vegetable alkalies. Same as Alkaloids. -- Volatile alkali, ammonia, so called in distinction from the fixed alk…

, to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity. It would allay the burning quality of that fell poison. Shak.

The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense.

To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.

One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist.

Furnished with alleys; forming an alley. "An alleyed walk." Sir W. Scott.

R.] The allness of God, including his absolute spirituality, supremacy, and eternity. R. Turnbull.

Pertaining to, furnished with, expressed by, or in the order of, the letters of the alphabet; as, alphabetic characters, writing, languages, arrangement.

To furnish with an alphabet.

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.

Acting by turns; alternate. Milton. Altern base (Trig.), a second side made base, in distinction from a side previously regarded as base.

Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal. And bid alternate passions fall and rise. Pope.

In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.

The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns.

procal 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.

Succession by turns; alternation. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Aluminium bronze or gold, a pale gold- colored alloy of aluminium and copper, used for journal bearings, etc.

y to act on either side in party disputes. The rest are hypocrites, ambidexters, so many turning pictures -- a lion on one side, a lamb on the other. Burton.