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To salute; to greet. [Poet.] Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who all-hailed me "Thane of Cawdor." Shak.

Controlled by an evil spirit or by evil passions; wild. [Colloq.]

With one breve, or four minims, to measure, and sung faster like four crotchets; in quick common time; -- indicated in the time signature by

The name of the Supreme Being, in use among the Arabs and the Mohammedans generally.

A silicate containing a large amount of cerium. It is usually black in color, opaque, and is related to epidote in form and composition.

Pertaining to, or contained in, the allantois. Allantoic acid. (Chem.) See Allantoin.

Of or pertaining to the allantois.

The division of Vertebrata in which the embryo develops an allantois. It includes reptiles, birds, and mammals.

A crystalline, transparent, colorless substance found in the allantoic liquid of the fetal calf; -- formerly called allantoic acid and amniotic acid.

A membranous appendage of the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles, -- in mammals serving to connect the fetus with the parent; the urinary vesicle.

To bark as a dog. [Obs.] Stubbes.

To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions.

One who, or that which, allays.

An allaying; that which allays; mitigation. [Obs.] The like allayment could I give my grief. Shak.

A kind of light armor used in the sixteenth century, esp. by the Swiss. Fairholt.

To allure; to entice. [Obs.]

Enticement; allurement. [Obs.] Bailey.

Alluring. [Obs.]

See Allege. [Obs.]

The act of alleging or positively asserting.