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Of or pertaining to alcohol, or partaking of its qualities; derived from, or caused by, alcohol; containing alcohol; as, alcoholic mixtures; alcoholic gastritis; alcoholic odor.

The kingfishers.

In a leaking condition.

A plant (Macrochloa tenacissima) of North Africa; also, its fiber, used in paper making.

The palace of the Moorish kings at Granada.

A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections. The alienation of his heart from the king. Bacon.

salute; to greet. [Poet.] Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who all-hailed me "Thane of Cawdor." Shak.

essed, which a subject owes to his sovereign or government; the duty of fidelity to one's king, government, or state.

h strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator; as, (a) (Metal Working)

The act of dashing against, or striking upon. The boisterous allision of the sea. Woodward.

The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words.

A speaking to another; an address. [Obs.]

t; to concede; to make allowance or abatement. Allowing still for the different ways of making it. Addison. To allow of, to permit; to admit. Shak.

ing, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. Without the king's will or the state's allowance. Shak.

In a line, or with a progressive motion; onward; forward. We will go along by the king's highway. Numb. xxi. 22. He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. Coleridge.

Of or relating to Alphonso X., the Wise, King of Castile (1252- 1284). Alphonsine tables, astronomical tables prepared under the patronage of Alphonso the Wise. Whewell.

An instrument for taking azimuths and altitudes simultaneously.

to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify. "To alter the king's course." "To alter the condition of a man." "No power in Venice can alter a decree." Shak. It 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. l…

The act of altering or making different. Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. Hooker.

The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. Mason. Alternation of generation. See under Generation.