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One of the orders of Anthozoa. It includes the Alcyonacea, Pennatulacea, and Gorgonacea.

Flour made of aleurone, used as a substitute for ordinary flour in preparing bread for diabetic persons.

See Henna.

Capability of being alienated. "The alienability of the domain." Burke.

Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another; as, land is alienable according to the laws of the state.

The state of being alienated or transferred to another. Brougham.

Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from. O alienate from God. Milton.

The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated.

One who alienates.

Pertaining to expansions of the nasal bone or cartilage.

Solely; only. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

A combination of alloxanic acid and a base or base or positive radical.

d moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc. Nautical almanac, an almanac, or year book, containing astronomical calculations (lunar, stellar, etc.), and other information useful to mariners.

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

Measurement (of cloth) by the ell; also, a duty for such measurement.

A measure by the ell; formerly a sworn officer in England, whose duty was to inspect act measure woolen cloth, and fix upon it a seal.

Alternateness; alternation. [R.] Mitford.

Composed of alternate layers, as some rocks.

in regular order. The practice obtains in the signing of treaties and conventions between nations.

of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal. And bid alternate passions fall and rise. Pope.