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The lowest note but one in Guido Aretino's scale of music.

The quality of being à la mode; conformity to the mode or fashion; fashionableness. [R.] Southey.

According to the fashion or prevailing mode. "Alamode beef shops." Macaulay.

To the death; mortally.

A wolfhound. [Obs.] Chaucer.

On land; to the land; ashore. "Cast aland." Sir P. Sidney.

A white crystalline base, C3H7NO2, derived from aldehyde ammonia.

See Inulin.

Pertaining to, or having, wings.

A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak.

Easily alarmed or disturbed.

Aroused to vigilance; excited by fear of approaching danger; agitated; disturbed; as, an alarmed neighborhood; an alarmed modesty. The white pavilions rose and fell On the alarmed air. Longfellow.

In an alarmed manner.

Exciting, or calculated to excite, alarm; causing apprehension of danger; as, an alarming crisis or report. -- A*larm"ing*ly, adv.

One prone to sound or excite alarms, especially, needless alarms. Macaulay.

See Alarm. [Now Poetic]

Of or pertaining to wings; also, wing-shaped. The alary system of insects. Wollaston.

ow, pity, or apprehension of evil; -- in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas the day, like alack a day, or alas the white.

Lately; of late. [Archaic] There hath been alate such tales spread abroad. Latimer.

Winged; having wings, or side appendages like wings.