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The instinct or faculty of appetite for food. [Chiefly in Phrenol.]

Affording food; nourishing. [R.] "Alimonious humors." Harvey.

An allowance made to a wife out of her husband's estate or income for her support, upon her divorce or legal separation from him, or during a suit for the same. Wharton. Burrill.

Pertaining to expansions of the nasal bone or cartilage.

To range or place in a line; to bring into line; to align. Evelyn.

See Allineation.

Same as Alignment.

One who adjusts things to a line or lines or brings them into line. Evelyn.

A star in the tail of the Great Bear, the one next the bowl in the Dipper.

An animal whose toes are connected by a membrane, serving for a wing, as the bat.

or derived from, fat; fatty; -- applied to compounds having an openc-hain structure. The aliphatic compounds thus include not only the fatty acids and other derivatives of the paraffin hydrocarbons, but also unsaturated compounds, as the ethylene and acetylene series.

An aliquant part of a number or quantity is one which does not divide it without leaving a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquant part of

An aliquot part of a number or quantity is one which will divide it without a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquot part of 15. Opposed to aliquant.

Relating to expansions of the nasal septum.

Like ale; as, an alish taste.

The alisphenoid bone.

in the base of the skull, which in the adult is often consolidated with the sphenoid; as, alisphenoid bone; alisphenoid canal.

The segment of the body of an insect to which the wings are attached; the thorax. Kirby.

Applied to those days when the holy sacrifice is not offered. Shipley.

From another source; from elsewhere; as, a case proved aliunde; evidence aliunde.