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A house where ale is retailed; hence, a tippling house. Macaulay.

The imperial standard of the Turkish Empire.

Belonging to the Alemanni, a confederacy of warlike German tribes.

al. It has mostly given place to the retort and worm still. Used also metaphorically. The alembic of a great poet's imagination. Brimley.

The salt of wisdom of the alchemists, a double salt composed of the chlorides of ammonium and mercury. It was formerly used as a stimulant. Brande & C.

See under Lace.

At full length; lenghtwise. Chaucer.

Not having scales. -- n.

A pole set up as the sign of an alehouse. [Obs.]

endemic along the Mediterranean, and is probably due to a specific bacillus. Called also Aleppo ulcer, Biskara boil, Delhi boil, Oriental sore, etc.

One of the cultivated forms of Andropogon Halepensis (syn. Sorghum Halepense). See Andropogon, below.

Brisk; nimble; moving with celerity. An alert young fellow. Addison.

In an alert manner; nimbly.

The quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.

A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a "bush." [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Aleconner. [Eng.]

The science which treats of the nature of truth and evidence. Sir W. Hamilton.

An instrument for viewing pictures by means of a lens, so as to present them in their natural proportions and relations.

Divination by means of flour. Encyc. Brit.

An instrument for determining the expansive properties, or quality, of gluten in flour. Knight.