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A colorless, mobile, and very volatile liquid obtained from alcohol by certain of oxidation.

der. (a) A European shrub (Rhamnus frangula); Alder buckthorn. (b) An American species of holly (Ilex verticillata), bearing red berries.

laces, so called from the liquor drunk. "At wakes and ales." B. Jonson."On ember eves and holy ales." Shak.

Always; wholly; everywhere. [Obs.] Ulna now he algates must forego. Spenser.

Cold; chilly. Bailey. Algid cholera (Med.), Asiatic cholera.

Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion. An alien sound of melancholy. Wordsworth. Alien enemy (Law), one who owes allegiance to a government at war with ours. Abbott.

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

oda, potash, ammoma, and lithia, whose distinguishing peculiarities are solubility in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue. Fixed alkalies, potash and soda. -- Vegetable al…

The whole quantity, extent, duration, amount, quality, or degree of; the whole; the whole number of; any whatever; every; as, all the wheat; all the land; all the year; all the strength; all happiness; all abundance; loss of all power; beyond all doubt; you will see us all (or all of us). Prove all things: hold fast th…

The second day of November; a feast day of the Roman Catholic church, on which supplications are made for the souls of the faithful dead.

A kind of light armor used in the sixteenth century, esp. by the Swiss. Fairholt.

To use allegory. Holland.

Light, fuel, or food for the whole night. [Obs.] Bacon.

Pertaining to allodium; freehold; free of rent or service; held independent of a lord paramount; -- opposed to feudal; as, allodial lands; allodial system. Blackstone.

One who holds allodial land.

One who holds an allodium.

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.

Acknowledgment. The censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others. Shak.

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

Persons supported by alms; almsmen. [Archaic] Holinshed.