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Tending to the properties of an alkali; slightly alkaline.

A boraginaceous herb (Alkanna tinctoria) yielding the dye; orchanet.

ge as a reason, plea, or excuse; as, he refused to lend, alleging a resolution against lending.

Pertaining to or designating the humid division of the Transition zone extending across the northern United States from New England to eastern Dakota, and including also most of Pennsylvania and the mountainous region as far south as northern Georgia.

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

Tending to alleviate. -- n.

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

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.

A genus of plants, including the onion, garlic, leek, chive, etc.

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

"Allowed." The word allocatur expresses the allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer.

The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. Without the king's will or the state's allowance. Shak.

The seed of canary grass (Phalaris Canariensis), used for feeding cage birds.

laudius admitted to the senate the sons of those who had been slaves; by which, and succeeding alterations, that council degenerated into a most corrupt. Swift.

Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health. Burton.

Characterized by wrangling; scolding. [R.] Fielding.

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

In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.

Grant all this; be it that; supposing that; notwithstanding; though. Although all shall be offended, yet will no I. Mark xiv. 29.

High-sounding; pompous in speech. [R.] Bailey.