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Same as Acaulescent.

Resembling little heaps.

A crystalline substance, C9H13O3N, obtained from suprarenal extract, of which it is regarded as the active principle. It is used in medicine as a stimulant and hemostatic.

A path through the air made easy for aërial navigation by steady winds.

To range or place in a line; to bring into line; to align. Evelyn.

See Allineation.

Same as Alignment.

One who adjusts things to a line or lines or brings them into line. Evelyn.

Of or pertaining to an alkali or to alkalies; having the properties of an alkali. Alkaline earths, certain substances, as lime, baryta, strontia, and magnesia, possessing some of the qualities of alkalies. -- Alkaline metals, potassium, sodium, cæsium, lithium, rubidium. -- Alkaline reaction, a reaction indicating al…

To align. [R.] Herschel.

Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, almonds.

Made from, or of the nature of, aniline.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. "Animalcular life." Tyndall.

Anything that neutralizes, or that counteracts an alkaline tendency in the system. Hoopplw.

Of power to counteract alkalies.

A structure of bedded rocks in which the beds on both sides of an axis or axial plane dip away from the axis; an anticlinal.

t, like the beak of an eagle; -- applied particularly to the nose Terribly arched and aquiline his nose. Cowper.

An oily liquid substance, C8H13O2N, the chief alkaloid of the betel nut, to which the latter owes its anthelmintic action.

Of or pertaining to the rod or punishment with the rod.