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The act rendering alkaline by impregnating with an alkali; a conferring of alkaline qualities.

To render alkaline; to communicate the properties of an alkali to.

An organic base, especially one of a class of substances occurring ready formed in the tissues of plants and the bodies of animals.

Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, alkali.

A dyeing matter extracted from the roots of Alkanna tinctoria, which gives a fine deep red color.

Same as Cacodylic acid.

iquid, having a repulsive odor, and consisting of cacodyl and its oxidation products; -- called also Cadel's fuming liquid.

See Alcazar.

An herbaceous plant of the nightshade family (Physalis alkekengi) and its fruit, which is a well flavored berry, the size of a cherry, loosely inclosed in a enlarged leafy calyx; -- also called winter cherry, ground cherry, and strawberry tomato. D. C. Eaton.

A compound cordial, in the form of a confection, deriving its name from the kermes insect, its principal ingredient.

The Mohammedan Scriptures. Same as Alcoran and Koran.

Same as Alcoranic.

Same as Alcoranist.

The whole quantity, extent, duration, amount, quality, or degree of; the whole; the whole number of; any whatever; every; as, all the wheat; all the land; all the year; all the strength; all happiness; all abundance; loss of all power; beyond all doubt; you will see us all (or all of us). Prove all things: hold fast th…

ich sportive impositions are practiced. The first of April, some do say, Is set apart for All Fools' Day. Poor Robin's Almanack (1760).

All four legs of a quadruped; or the two legs and two arms of a person. To be, go, or run, on all fours (Fig.), to be on the same footing; to correspond (with) exactly; to be alike in all the circumstances to be considered. "This example is on all fours with the other." "No simile can go on all fours." Macaulay.…

All health; -- a phrase of salutation or welcome.

The first day of November, called, also, Allhallows or Hallowmas; a feast day kept in honor of all the saints; also, the season of this festival.

The second day of November; a feast day of the Roman Catholic church, on which supplications are made for the souls of the faithful dead.

See Alamort.