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One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory. Hume.

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

The act of dashing against, or striking upon. The boisterous allision of the sea. Woodward.

The allodial system.

One who holds allodial land.

Variability in chemical constitution without variation in crystalline form.

The property which constitutes an allomorph; the change involved in becoming an allomorph.

One who practices allopathy; one who professes allopathy.

The worship of strange gods. Jer. Taylor.

The property of existing in two or more conditions which are distinct in their physical or chemical relations.

A practitioner who tries to prevent or cure baldness.

The expression of spoken sounds by an alphabet. Encyc. Brit.

A climber of the Alps.

The seed of canary grass (Phalaris Canariensis), used for feeding cage birds.

A chaplain.

In the proper position of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south. Shipley.

An arrangement of lenses and mirrors which enables a person to see an object in spite of intervening objects.

High-sounding; lofty or pompous. Skelton.

Altisonant.

The part or notes situated above F in alt.