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The evening before Allhallows. See Halloween.

The evening before Allhallows. See Halloween.

A kind of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter. Chambers.

Chaucer. "And all this is long of you." Shak. "This increase of price is all along of the foreigners." London Punch.

State of being aloof. Rogers (1642). The . . . aloofness of his dim forest life. Thoreau.

A minister of the highest rank sent a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country.

atory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places. The priesthood . . . before was very ambulatory, and dispersed into all families. Jer. Taylor.

-- American Party (U. S. Politics), a party, about 1854, which opposed the influence of foreign-born citizens, and those supposed to owe allegiance to a foreign power. -- Native american Party (U. S. Politics), a party of principles similar to those of the American party. It arose about 1843, but soon died out.…

ord is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically. In such expressions as "twice an hour," "once an age," a shilling an ounce (see 2d A, 2), it has a distributive force, and is equiv…

He retained his virtues amidst all his misfortunes -- misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent."

ind, because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before hidden.

ended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.

great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied to the times before the fall of the Roman empire; -- opposed to modern; as, ancient authors, literature, history; ancient days. Witness those ancient empires of the earth. Milton. Gildas Albanius . . . much ancienter than his namesake surnamed t…

A muscle of the elbow and forearm.

Anecdotes collectively; a collection of anecdotes. All history, therefore, being built partly, and some of it altogether, upon anecdotage, must be a tissue of lies. De Quincey.

eutonic people (Angles, Saxons, Jutes) of England, or the English people, collectively, before the Norman Conquest. It is quite correct to call Æthelstan "King of the Anglo-Saxons," but to call this or that subject of Æthelstan "an Anglo-Saxon" is simply nonsense. E. A. Freeman.

under the emotion of anger; feeling resentment; enraged; -- followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing. Be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves. Gen. xlv. 5. Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice Eccles. v. 6.

stinctive properties of, so that the specific thing no longer exists; as, to annihilate a forest by cutting down the trees. "To annihilate the army." Macaulay.

A sum of money, payable yearly, to continue for a given number of years, for life, or forever; an annual allowance.

Foretold; preannounced. [Obs.] Chaucer.