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One engaged in an affray.

Affray. [Obs.] Spenser.

To gainsay. [Obs.] Wyclif.

An exclamation expressing sorrow.

The first Sunday after Easter Sunday, properly Albless Sunday, because in the early church those who had been baptized on Easter eve laid aside on the following Saturday their white albs which had been put on after baptism.

A commander of a castle or fortress among the Spaniards, Portuguese, and Moors.

Same as Alcaid.

Continually. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The first day of April, a day on which sportive impositions are practiced. The first of April, some do say, Is set apart for All Fools' Day. Poor Robin's Almanack (1760).

The second day of November; a feast day of the Roman Catholic church, on which supplications are made for the souls of the faithful dead.

To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions.

One who, or that which, allays.

An allaying; that which allays; mitigation. [Obs.] The like allayment could I give my grief. Shak.

An alley.

A kind of dance. See Allemande. Almain rivets, Almayne rivets, or Alman rivets, a sort of light armor from Germany, characterized by overlapping plates, arranged to slide on rivets, and thus afford great flexibility.

Rays of relatively low penetrating power emitted by radium and other radioactive substances, and shown to consist of positively charged particles (perhaps particles of helium) having enormous velocities but small masses. They are slightly deflected by a strong magnetic or electric field.

Always. [Archaic or Poetic] I would not live alway. Job vii. 16.

At all times; ever; perpetually; throughout all time; continually; as, God is always the same. Even in Heaven his [Mammon's] looks and thoughts. Milton.

Anywise; at all. Tennyson. Southey.

To pay; to satisfy or appease. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.