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The bone of the rump; also, the cut of beef surrounding this bone. [Spelt also edgebone.]

Slightly turned or opened; as, the door was standing ajar.

A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made. Fosbroke.

According to the fashion or prevailing mode. "Alamode beef shops." Macaulay.

Even though; although; notwithstanding. Chaucer. Albeit so masked, Madam, I love the truth. Tennyson.

The jurisdiction or office of an alcalde; also, the building or chamber in which he conducts the business of his office.

A genus of perching birds, including the European kingfisher (Alcedo ispida). See Halcyon.

formerly used for various utensils; hence, a trumpet. [Obs.] Put to their mouths the sounding alchemy. Milton.

A small ornamental building with seats, or an arched seat, in a pleasure ground; a garden bower. Cowper.

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

A group of birds including the common fowl and the pheasants.

Notwithstanding; yet. [Obs.] Chaucer.

nsive 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 exception of the territory occupied by the…

One of a widely spread family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence.

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

Otherwise; otherwise called; -- a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson.

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

ritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances. Alimentary canal, the entire channel, extending from the mouth to the anus, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the useless parts ejected.

The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.

Affording food; nourishing. [R.] "Alimonious humors." Harvey.