Search the Dictionary

Above; on top of. [Obs.] Fresh waters run aloft the sea. Holland.

e to England shall along with you. Shak. All along, all trough the course of; during the whole time; throughout. "I have all along declared this to be a neutral paper." Addison. -- To get along, to get on; to make progress, as in business. "She 'll get along in heaven better than you or I." Mrs. Stowe.…

stian church, a construction of stone, wood, or other material for the celebration of the Holy Eucharist; the communion table.

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify. "To alter the king's course." "To alter the condition of a man." "No power in Venice can alter a decree." Shak. It gilds all objects, but it alters none. Pope. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out…

Alternate; reciprocal. [Obs.] Holland.

us of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks.

Without exception; wholly; completely. Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Ps. xxxix. 5.

The hollow of the external ear. Quincy.

At full speed; in great haste; also, at once. "They fled amain." Holinshed.

To coalesce, as a result of growth; to combine into a uniform whole; to blend; as, two organs or parts amalgamate.

cution; indirect mode of speech. After many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is. Burton.

g masses are sometimes from sixty to two hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212º Fahrenheit, and is highly valued in perfumery. Dana.

Iowa in 1887, ostensibly for the protection of American institutions by keeping Roman Catholics out of public office. Abbrev. commonly to A. P .A.

rn at first on the head, but now about the neck and shoulders, by priests of the Roman Catholic Church while saying Mass.

ch by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; -- with to or unto.

, asbestus, edenite, hornblende (the last name being also used as a general term for the whole species). Amphibole is a constituent of many crystalline rocks, as syenite, diorite, most varieties of trachyte, etc. See Hornblende.

Among the ancients, a two-handled vessel, tapering at the bottom, used for holding wine, oil, etc.

The vase in which the holy oil for chrism, unction, or coronation is kept. Shipley.

wilder. [Obs.] Camillus set upon the Gauls when they were amused in receiving their gold. Holland. Being amused with grief, fear, and fright, he could not find the house. Fuller.

A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.