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The district or ward of an alderman.

On or toward the lee, or the side away from the wind; the opposite of aweather. The helm of a ship is alee when pressed close to the lee side. Hard alee, or Luff alee, an order to put the helm to the lee side.

Belonging to the Alemanni, a confederacy of warlike German tribes.

An alarm from a real or threatened attack; a sudden attack; also, a bugle sound to give warning. "We have had an alert." Farrow. On the alert, on the lookout or watch against attack or danger; ready to act.

An inferior officer of justice in Spain; a warrant officer; a constable. Prescott.

of melancholy. Wordsworth. Alien enemy (Law), one who owes allegiance to a government at war with ours. Abbott.

Exhibiting the activity and motion of many living beings; swarming; thronged. The Boyne, for a quarter of a mile, was alive with muskets and green boughs. Macaulay.

To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact.

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

A substance produced by acting upon uric with warm and very dilute nitric acid.

Allurement. [R.] Hayward.

Allusive. [R.] Warburton.

; from some of which are prepared articles for medicine and the arts. They are natives of warm countries.

In a line, or with a progressive motion; onward; forward. We will go along by the king's highway. Numb. xxi. 22. He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. Coleridge.

s observed after the summits have passed into shadow, supposed to be due to a curving downward (refraction) of the light rays from the west resulting from the cooling of the air.

A lead ore found in Cornwall, England, and used by potters to give a green glaze to their wares; potter's ore.

In the proper position of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south. Shipley.

Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest. "Stormy altercations." Macaulay.

two things are called alternatives. Having to choose between two alternatives, safety and war, you obstinately prefer the worse. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

Space extended upward; height; the perpendicular elevation of an object above its foundation, above the ground, or above a given level, or of one object above another; as, the altitude of a mountain, or of a bird above the top of a tree.