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A frame on which clothes are aired or dried.

A compact variety or sulphate of lime, or gypsum, of fine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc.

A sect of reformers opposed to the church of Rome in the 12th centuries.

The imaginary milk-white animal on which Mohammed was said to have been carried up to heaven; a white mule.

A blank book, in which to insert autographs sketches, memorial writing of friends, photographs, etc.

c poet of Mitylene, about 6000 b. c. -- n. A kind of verse, so called from Alcæus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls.

An oriental shrub (Lawsonia inermis) from which henna is obtained.

a); Alder buckthorn. (b) An American species of holly (Ilex verticillata), bearing red berries.

beverage, formerly made by boiling ale with spice, sugar, and sops of bread. Their aleberries, caudles, possets. Beau. & Fl.

probably due to a specific bacillus. Called also Aleppo ulcer, Biskara boil, Delhi boil, Oriental sore, etc.

To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from. The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. Macaulay. The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him…

triment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: sustenance; means of support. Aliments of theiBacon.

he paraffin hydrocarbons, but also unsaturated compounds, as the ethylene and acetylene series.

One of a series of compounds that may be regarded as ammonia in which a part of the hydrogen has been replaced by basic, and another part by acid, atoms or radicals.

Wholly; completely; altogether; entirely; quite; very; as, all bedewed; my friend is all for amusement. "And cheeks all pale." Byron.

An allaying; that which allays; mitigation. [Obs.] The like allayment could I give my grief. Shak.

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

A variety of pseudomorph which has undergone partial or complete change or substitution of material; -- thus limonite is frequently an allomorph after pyrite. G. H. Williams.

forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends.

lity of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety. South.