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That which is alleged, asserted, or declared; positive assertion; formal averment I thought their allegation but reasonable. Steele.

The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense.

Am eagle without beak or feet, with expanded wings. Burke.

The act of alleviating; a lightening of weight or severity; mitigation; relief.

Allhallows. [Obs.] Shak.

The act of tying together or attaching by some bond, or the state of being attached. [R.]

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

The act of dashing against, or striking upon. The boisterous allision of the sea. Woodward.

The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: - Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness. Milton. Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. Tennyson.

The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement. Hallam.

An address; a hortatory or authoritative address as of a pope to his clergy. Addison.

A thrust or pass; a lunge.

The name of another person assumed by the author of a work.

Published under the name of some one other than the author.

A reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned; a covert indication; indirect reference; a hint.

An overflowing; an inundation; a flood. Lyell.

The lofty Brazil-nut tree.

The fruit of the almond tree.

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

See Almandine