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s, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief. To repay that money will be a biting affliction. Shak.

A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta, about the size of a rabbit, peculiar to South America and the West Indies. The most common species is the Dasyprocta agouti.

It is not good that man should be alone; let us make unto him an aid like unto himself. Tobit viii. 6.

Intention; purpose; design; scheme. How oft ambitious aims are crossed! Pope.

One of a peculiar race inhabiting Yesso, the Kooril Islands etc., in the northern part of the empire of Japan, by some supposed to have been the progenitors of the Japanese. The Ainos are stout and short, with hairy bodies.

Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand. [Colloq.]

A bituminous mineral resembling asphaltum, found in the county of A.

n intoxicating liquor made from an infusion of malt by fermentation and the addition of a bitter, usually hops.

To allay or alleviate; to lighten. [Obs.] That shall alegge this bitter blast. Spenser.

fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture.

Exhibiting the activity and motion of many living beings; swarming; thronged. The Boyne, for a quarter of a mile, was alive with muskets and green boughs. Macaulay.

To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; as, to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity. It would allay the burning quality of that fell poison. Shak.

ters commonly existing singly or in pairs in the germ cells of Mendelian hybrids, and exhibited in varying proportion among the organisms themselves. Allelomorphs which under certain circumstances are themselves compound are called hypallelomorphs. See Mendel's law. -- Al*le`lo*mor"phic (#), a.

n a company. The allocation of the particular portions of Palestine to its successive inhabitants. A. R. Stanley.

The quality of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety. South.

One of the tonsils. Almond oil, fixed oil expressed from sweet or bitter almonds. -- Oil of bitter almonds, a poisonous volatile oil obtained from bitter almonds by maceration and distillation; benzoic aldehyde. -- Imitation oil of bitter almonds, nitrobenzene. -- Almond tree (Bot.), the tree bearing the almond. --…

lent plants, some classed as trees, others as shrubs, but the greater number having the habit and appearance of evergreen herbaceous plants; from some of which are prepared articles for medicine and the arts. They are natives of warm countries.

A bitter purgative principle in aloes.

An inhabitant of Alsatia or Alsace in Germany, or of Alsatia or White Friars (a resort of debtors and criminals) in London.

A characteristic crystalline substance, obtained from oil of bitter almonds.