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Figuratively [Obs.]; by way of allusion; by implication, suggestion, or insinuation.

The quality of being allusive.

Allusive. [R.] Warburton.

Pertaining to, contained in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.

Matter deposited by an inundation or the action of flowing water; alluvium. The golden alluvions are there [in California and Australia] spread over a far wider space: they are found not only on the banks of rivers, and in their beds, but are scattered over the surface of vast plains. R. Cobden.

Alluvial. [R.] Johnson.

Deposits of earth, 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 fleecy cloud formation consisting of large whitish or grayish globular cloudlets with shaded portions, often grouped in flocks or rows.

One of the pear-shaped pots open at both ends, and so formed as to be fitted together, the neck of one into the bottom of another in succession; -- used in the process of sublimation. Ure.

A false or bastard wing. See under Bastard.

Pertaining to the alula.

A double sulphate formed of aluminium and some other element (esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twenty-four molecules of water of crystallization.

A North American herb (Heuchera Americana) of the Saxifrage family, whose root has astringent properties.

lay slate, containing iron pyrites, the decomposition of which leads to the formation of alum, which often effloresces on the rock.

A subsulphate of alumina and potash; alunite.

Alum.

One of the earths, consisting of two parts of aluminium and three of oxygen, Al2O3.

A compound formed from the hydrate of aluminium by the substitution of a metal for the hydrogen.

Combined with alumina.

Alumina. Davy.