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The European shad (Clupea vulgaris); allice shad. See Alose.

United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally.

See Alignment.

See Garnet.

See Allodium.

-- followed by to; as, the story alludes to a recent transaction. These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use. Hooker.

An accession of land gradually washed to the shore or bank by the flowing of water. See Accretion.

See Alley, a marble or taw.

ted instrument for observing the heavenly bodies as they cross a given almacantar circle. See Almucantar.

A kind of dance. See Allemande. Almain rivets, Almayne rivets, or Alman rivets, a sort of light armor from Germany, characterized by overlapping plates, arranged to slide on rivets, and thus afford great flexibility.

See Ambry. [Obs.]

See Alms. [Obs.]

See Almandine

See Almonry. [Obs.]

the people. Acts x. 2. Alms are but the vehicles of prayer. Dryden. Tenure by free alms. See Frankalmoign. Blackstone.

or parallel of altitude. Two stars which have the same almucantar have the same altitude. See Almacantar. [Archaic] Almucanter staff, an ancient instrument, having an arc of fifteen degrees, formerly used at sea to take observations of the sun's amplitude at the time of its rising or setting, to find the variation of t…

ive. [Plural in form but syntactically singular.] American aloe, Century aloe, the agave. See Agave.

See Agalloch.

See Longshoreman.

d or allis shad. The name is sometimes applied to the American shad (Clupea sapidissima). See Shad.