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The act of tying together or attaching by some bond, or the state of being attached. [R.]

per jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South America.

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.

Of or pertaining to allotropism. -- Al`lo*trop"ic*al*ly, adv. Allotropic state, the several conditions which occur in a case of allotropism.

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

te, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy; -- often followed by to or with. O chief! in blood, and now in arms allied. Pope.

as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc. Nautical almanac, an almanac, or year book, containing astronomical calculations (lunar, stellar, etc.), and other information useful to mariners.

A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness. [R.] Bp. Montagu.

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

The higher part of the scale. See Alto. To be in alt, to be in an exalted state of mind.

The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition. Ere long might perceive Strange alteration in me. Milton. Appius Claudius admitted to the senate the sons of those who had been slaves; by which, and succeeding alterations, that council degenerated into a most corrupt. Swift…

Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health. Burton.

The state or quality of being other; a being otherwise. [R.] For outness is but the feeling of otherness (alterity) rendered intuitive, or alterity visually represented. Coleridge.

Without exception; wholly; completely. Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Ps. xxxix. 5.

Constancy during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals; invariably; uniformly; -- opposed to sometimes or occasionally. He always rides a black galloway. Bulwer.

The state of being amazed, or confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder. Bp. Hall.

The state, office, or functions of an ambassador.

The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression. No shadow of ambiguity can rest upon the course to be pursued. I. Taylor. The words are of single signification, w…

up of large, extinct, herbivorous mammals, common in the Tertiary formation of the United States.

The act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration. "Amelioration of human affairs." J. S. Mill.