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A rule relating to the solution of questions concerning the compounding or mixing of different ingredients, or ingredients of different qualities or values.

Totality; completeness. [R.] The allness of God, including his absolute spirituality, supremacy, and eternity. R. Turnbull.

Freehold estate; land which is the absolute property of the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud. Blackstone. Bouvier.

To sanction; to invest; to intrust. [Obs.] Thou shalt be . . . allowed with absolute power. Shak.

An oxidation product of uric acid. It is of a pale reddish color, readily soluble in water or alcohol.

Of or pertaining to alloxan; -- applied to an acid obtained by the action of soluble alkalies on alloxan.

treaty or league; -- usually applied to sovereigns or states; a confederate. The English soldiers and their French allies. Macaulay.

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.

A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness. [R.] Bp. Montagu.

is taken, the other must be left. There is something else than the mere alternative of absolute destruction or unreformed existence. Burke.

To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum. Ure.

Pertaining to or containing alum, or alumina; as, aluminous minerals, aluminous solution.

t its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter. Ure.

The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing. [Obs.] [I] used no ambition to commend my deeds. Milton.

ression used at the end of prayers, and meaning, So be it. At the end of a creed, it is a solemn asseveration of belief. When it introduces a declaration, it is equivalent to truly, verily. It is used as a noun, to demote: (a) concurrence in belief, or in a statement; assent; (b) the final word or act; (c) Christ as be…

Start modified by heat so as to become a transparent mass, like horn. It is soluble in cold water.

An obsolete form of admiral. "The mast of some great ammiral." Milton.

mell, and a nauseous, sweet taste, followed by a bitter one. It is inflammable, partially soluble in water and in spirit of wine, and is used in medicine as an expectorant and resolvent, and for the formation of certain plasters.

unition bread, shoes, etc., such as are contracted for by government, and supplied to the soldiers. [Eng.]

Without crystallization in the ultimate texture of a solid substance; uncrystallized.