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d division of the Transition zone extending across the northern United States from New England to eastern Dakota, and including also most of Pennsylvania and the mountainous region as far south as northern Georgia.

To use allegory. Holland.

monial alliances; an alliance between church and state; an alliance between France and England.

rent or service; held independent of a lord paramount; -- opposed to feudal; as, allodial lands; allodial system. Blackstone.

One who holds allodial land.

Freehold estate; land which is the absolute property of the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud. Blackstone. Bouvier.

cular thing to a particular person. Cottage allotment, an allotment of a small portion of land to a country laborer for garden cultivation. [Eng.]

An accession of land gradually washed to the shore or bank by the flowing of water. See Accretion.

sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Lyell.

A measure by the ell; formerly a sworn officer in England, whose duty was to inspect act measure woolen cloth, and fix upon it a seal.

Above; on top of. [Obs.] Fresh waters run aloft the sea. Holland.

In company; together. He to England shall along with you. Shak. All along, all trough the course of; during the whole time; throughout. "I have all along declared this to be a neutral paper." Addison. -- To get along, to get on; to make progress, as in business. "She 'll get along in heaven better than you or I." Mrs.…

lural, the highest chain of mountains in Europe, containing the lofty mountains of Switzerland, etc. Nor breath of vernal air from snowy alp. Milton. Hills peep o'er hills, and alps on alps arise. Pope.

A lead ore found in Cornwall, England, and used by potters to give a green glaze to their wares; potter's ore.

To vary by turns; as, the land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains.

Alternate; reciprocal. [Obs.] Holland.

The national assembly or parliament of Iceland. See Thing, n., 8.

vesicle, as the socket of a tooth, the air cells of the lungs, the ultimate saccules of glands, etc.

A fossil resin occurring in large masses in New Zealand.

A friend; -- a Spanish term applied in the Philippine Islands to friendly natives.