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nse under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi.

Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.

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.

To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.

A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another.

One who alienates or transfers property to another. Blackstone.

applied to compounds having an openc-hain structure. The aliphatic compounds thus include not only the fatty acids and other derivatives of the paraffin hydrocarbons, but also unsaturated compounds, as the ethylene and acetylene series.

An aliquant part of a number or quantity is one which does not divide it without leaving a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquant part of

Applied to those days when the holy sacrifice is not offered. Shipley.

From another source; from elsewhere; as, a case proved aliunde; evidence aliunde.

y be regarded as ammonia in which a part of the hydrogen has been replaced by basic, and another part by acid, atoms or radicals.

Only; alone; nothing but. I was born to speak all mirth and no matter. Shak. All the whole, the whole (emphatically). [Obs.] "All the whole army." Shak.

on." Pope. Allegorical being . . . that kind of language which says one thing, but means another. Max Miller. Al`le*gor"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Al`le*gor"ic*al*ness, n.

A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.…

Quicker than andante, but not so quick as allegro. -- n.

That which mitigates, or makes more tolerable. I have not wanted such alleviations of life as friendship could supply. Johnson.

d the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South America.

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

Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species; cross-fertilization.