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succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear.

Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction.

In the manner of alternatives, or that admits the choice of one out of two things.

The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two.

An electric generator or dynamo for producing alternating currents.

Succession by turns; alternation. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

To stick together.[Obs.] Holland.

One who,makes crude potash, or black salts.

n the materials used in pickling, salting, and preserving various kinds of food Hence drysalters usually sell a number of saline substances and miscellaneous drugs. Brande & C.

The articles kept by a drysalter; also, the business of a drysalter.

One who exalts or raises to dignity.

To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters. With faltering speech and visage incomposed. Milton.

Hesitating; trembling. "With faltering speech." Milton. -- n.

r tying a horse. (b) A rope for hanging malefactors; a noose. Shak. No man e'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law. Trumbull.

A term of reproach, implying that one is fit to be hanged. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Balancers; the rudimentary hind wings of Diptera.

The quality of being unalterable or unchangeable; permanence.

Not alterable; incapable of being altered or changed; unalterable. -- In*al"ter*a*ble*ness, n. -- In*al"ter*a*bly, adv.

A kind of halter usually made of raw hide.

To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse. Bp. Hall.