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Of or containing aluminium; as, aluminic phosphate.

Containing alum.

pertaining the form of alumina.

The metallic base of alumina. This metal is white, but with a bluish tinge, and is remarkable for its resistance to oxidation, and for its lightness, pertaining a specific gravity of about 2.6. Atomic weight 27.08. Symbol Al. Aluminium bronze or gold, a pale gold- colored alloy of aluminium and copper, used for journal…

To treat impregnate with alum; to alum.

Art or process of producing, and printing from, aluminium plates, after the manner of ordinary lithography. -- A*lu`mi*no*graph"ic (#), a.

Pertaining to or containing alum, or alumina; as, aluminous minerals, aluminous solution.

See Aluminium.

Somewhat like alum.

A female pupil; especially, a graduate of a school or college.

A pupil; especially, a graduate of a college or other seminary of learning.

Alum stone.

mineral frequently found on the walls of mines and quarries, chiefly hydrous sulphate of alumina; -- also called feather alum, and hair salt.

applied to passages of various kinds. The sides of every street were covered with fresh alures of marble. T. Warton.

Leathery.

The tanning or dressing of leather. [Obs.] Blount.

A small depression, sac, or vesicle, as the socket of a tooth, the air cells of the lungs, the ultimate saccules of glands, etc.

Lacking grammatical sequence. -- An`a*co*lu"thic*al*ly, adv.

A want of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter part does not syntactically correspond with the first part.

A silicate of aluminium, occurring usually in thick rhombic prisms, nearly square, of a grayish or pale reddish tint. It was first discovered in Andalusia, Spain.