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Figuratively [Obs.]; by way of allusion; by implication, suggestion, or insinuation.

The quality of being allusive.

Allusive. [R.] Warburton.

Pertaining to, contained in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.

Matter deposited by an inundation or the action of flowing water; alluvium. The golden alluvions are there [in California and Australia] spread over a far wider space: they are found not only on the banks of rivers, and in their beds, but are scattered over the surface of vast plains. R. Cobden.

Alluvial. [R.] Johnson.

Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Lyell.

Everywhere. [Archaic]

Domestic or other work of all kinds; as, a maid of allwork, that is, a general servant.

ague, or confederacy; -- often followed by to or with. O chief! in blood, and now in arms allied. Pope.

An organic radical, C3H5, existing especially in oils of garlic and mustard.

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

A college or seminary where one is educated.

Same as Alme.

Same as Almucantar.

A boat used at Calicut, in India, about eighty feet long, and six or seven broad.

The celebrated work of Ptolemy of Alexandria, which contains nearly all that is known of the astronomical observations and theories of the ancients. The name was extended to other similar works.

A fine, deep red ocher, somewhat purplish, found in Spain. It is the sil atticum of the ancients. Under the name of Indian red it is used for polishing glass and silver.

A German. Also adj.,

A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and various statistics are often added, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc. Nautical almanac, an almanac, or year book, co…