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Like or pertaining to the Alcyonaria. -- n.

A colorless, mobile, and very volatile liquid obtained from alcohol by certain of oxidation.

Of or pertaining to aldehyde; as, aldehydic acid. Miller.

Pertaining to, or like, an alderman.

and known by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been applied to certain elegant editions of English works.

A colorless liquid, C4H8O2, obtained by condensation of two molecules of acetaldehyde: CH3CHO + CH3CHO = H3CH(OH)CH2CO; also, any of various derivatives of this. The same reaction has been applied, under the name of aldol condensation, to the production of many compounds.

Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory contract. Bouvier.

Of or pertaining to a chain of islands between Alaska and Kamtchatka; also, designating these islands.

Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt; as, the Alexandrian library.

Pertaining to, or like, algæ.

Of or pertaining to algebra; containing an operation of algebra, or deduced from such operation; as, algebraic characters; algebraical writings. Algebraic curve, a curve such that the equation which expresses the relation between the coördinates of its points involves only the ordinary operations of algebra; -- opposed…

Of or pertaining to Algeria. -- n.

Of or pertaining to Algiers or Algeria.

A nitrogenous substance resembling gelatin, obtained from certain algæ.

Of or pertaining to algology; as, algological specimens.

(Geol.) Pertaining to or designating a period or era recognized by the United States Geological Survey and some other authorities, between the Archæan and the Paleozoic, from both of which it is generally separated in the record by unconformities. Algonkian rocks are both sedimentary and igneous. Although fossils are…

Pertaining to or designating the most extensive of the linguistic families of North American Indians, their territory formerly including practically all of Canada east of the 115th meridian and south of Hudson's Bay and the part of the United States east of the Mississippi and north of Tennessee and Virginia, with the…

Of or pertaining to the algæ, or seaweeds; abounding with, or like, seaweed.

One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies. Aliens from the common wealth of Israel. Ephes. ii. 12.

Pertaining to expansions of the ethmoid bone or