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Variability in chemical constitution without variation in crystalline form.

To thrust with a sword; to lunge.

apart as one's share; to bestow on; to grant; to appoint; as, let every man be contented with that which Providence allots him. Ten years I will allot to the attainment of knowledge. Johnson.

To like; to be suited or pleased with. [Obs.] How allow you the model of these clothes Massinger.

owing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. Without the king's will or the state's allowance. Shak.

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

A baser metal mixed with a finer. Fine silver is silver without the mixture of any baser metal. Alloy is baser metal mixed with it. Locke.

Any steel containing a notable quantity of some other metal alloyed with the iron, usually chromium, nickel, manganese, tungsten, or vanadium.

To compare allusively; to refer (something) as applicable. [Obs.] Wither.

real or apparent; to invite by something flattering or acceptable; to entice; to attract. With promised joys allured them on. Falconer. The golden sun in splendor likest Heaven Allured his eye. Milton.

between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy; -- often followed by to or with. O chief! in blood, and now in arms allied. Pope.

A gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H4, homologous with acetylene; propine. CH3.C.CH

With almighty power.

Of or by itself; by themselves; without any thing more or any one else; without a sharer; only. Man shall not live by bread alone. Luke iv. 4. The citizens alone should be at the expense. Franklin.

A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness. [R.] Bp. Montagu.

By the length; in a line with the length; lengthwise. Some laid along . . . on spokes of wheels are hung. Dryden.

Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree.

At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away. Our palace stood aloof from streets. Dryden.

With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly. Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice. Isa. lviii. 1.

A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton.