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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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333 words match “ALAN”

CEPHALANTHIUM n.

Same as Anthodium.

COUNTERBALANCE v. 4 definitions

ght or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance. The remaining air was not able to counterbalance the mercurial cylinder. Boyle. The cstudy of mind is necessary to counterbalance and correct the influence of the study of nature. Sir W. Hamilton.

DRYOBALANOPS n.

The genus to which belongs the single species D. Camphora, a lofty resinous tree of Borneo and Sumatra, yielding Borneo camphor and camphor oil.

EQUIBALANCE v. 2 definitions

To make of equal weight; to balance equally; to counterbalance; to equiponderate.

Having the quality of exhaling or evaporating.

viverrine mammal of Madagascar (Eupleres Goudotii), allied to the civet; -- called also Falanouc.

GALANGA; GALANGAL n.

ngent aromatic rhizome or tuber of certain East Indian or Chinese species of Alpinia (A. Galanga and A. officinarum) and of the Kæmpferia Galanga), -- all of the Ginger family.

A dish of veal, chickens, or other white meat, freed from bones, tied up, boiled, and served cold. Smart.

INHALANT a. 2 definitions

Inhaling; used for inhaling.

INTERPHALANGEAL a.

Between phalanges; as, interphalangeal articulations.

A scurfy eruption in the bend of the knee of the fore leg of a horse. See Sallenders. [Written also mallenders.]

MYROBALAN; MYROBOLAN n.

A dried astringent fruit much resembling a prune. It contains tannin, and was formerly used in medicine, but is now chiefly used in tanning and dyeing. Myrobolans are produced by various species of Terminalia of the East Indies, and of Spondias of South America.

A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean. New Zealand flax. (a) (Bot.) A tall, liliaceous herb (Phormium tenax), having very long, sword-shaped, distichous leaves which furnish a fine, strong fiber very valuable for cordage and the like. (b) The fiber itself. -- New Zealand tea (Bot.), a myrtaceous shrub (Leptosp…

Indifference; carelessness; coolness.

Indifferent; careless; cool.

NONCHALANTLY adv.

In a nonchalant, indifferent, or careless manner; coolly.

ht; to exceed in weight or effect. Let dull Ajax bear away my right When all his days outbalance this one night. Dryden.

OVERBALANCE v. 3 definitions

To cause to lose balance or equilibrium.

A complex nitrogenous substance C3N3H5O3 obtained from alloxan (or when urea is fused with ethyl oxamate), as a stable white crystalline powder; -- called also oxaluramide.