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A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.

Admixture of anything which lessens the value or detracts from; as, no happiness is without alloy. "Pure English without Latin alloy." F. Harrison.

in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.

nce. 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.

One of the tonsils. Almond oil, fixed oil expressed from sweet or bitter almonds. -- Oil of bitter almonds, a poisonous volatile oil obtained from bitter almonds by maceration and distillation; benzoic aldehyde. -- Imitation oil of bitter almonds, nitrobenzene. -- Almond tree (Bot.), the tree bearing the almond. --…

A kind of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter. Chambers.

s, but the greater number having the habit and appearance of evergreen herbaceous plants; from some of which are prepared articles for medicine and the arts. They are natives of warm countries.

Quite by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solitary; -- applied to a person or thing. Alone on a wide, wide sea. Coleridge. It is not good that the man should be alone. Gen. ii. 18.

By the length of, as distinguished from across. "Along the lowly lands." Dryden. The kine . . . went along the highway. 1 Sam. vi. 12.

At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away. Our palace stood aloof from streets. Dryden.

s in Europe, containing the lofty mountains of Switzerland, etc. Nor breath of vernal air from snowy alp. Milton. Hills peep o'er hills, and alps on alps arise. Pope.

ssed into shadow, supposed to be due to a curving downward (refraction) of the light rays from the west resulting from the cooling of the air.

The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes. Shipley.

The act of altering or making different. Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. Hooker.

by turns; alternate. Milton. Altern base (Trig.), a second side made base, in distinction from a side previously regarded as base.

A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.

ted between such point and the horizon. It is either true or apparent; true when measured from the rational or real horizon, apparent when from the sensible or apparent horizon.

A compound formed from the hydrate of aluminium by the substitution of a metal for the hydrogen.

Art or process of producing, and printing from, aluminium plates, after the manner of ordinary lithography. -- A*lu`mi*no*graph"ic (#), a.

Of, from, in, or pertaining to, the belly or the intestines; as, alvine discharges; alvine concretions.