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Uniting, as glue; causing, or tending to cause, adhesion. -- n.

Helping; helpful; supplying aid. Shak.

Same as Ailantus.

A genus of beautiful trees, natives of the East Indies. The tree imperfectly di

A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone; an aërophyte.

See Inulin.

Growing or becoming white.

A kind of wine, formerly much esteemed; -- said to have been made near Alicant, in Spain. J. Fletcher.

An aliquant part of a number or quantity is one which does not divide it without leaving a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquant part of

Pertaining to, or contained in, the allantois. Allantoic acid. (Chem.) See Allantoin.

Of or pertaining to the allantois.

The division of Vertebrata in which the embryo develops an allantois. It includes reptiles, birds, and mammals.

A crystalline, transparent, colorless substance found in the allantoic liquid of the fetal calf; -- formerly called allantoic acid and amniotic acid.

A membranous appendage of the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles, -- in mammals serving to connect the fetus with the parent; the urinary vesicle.

Loyal. Shak.

An ally; a confederate. [Obs. & R.] Sir H. Wotton.

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

Same as Almucantar.

llel to the horizon; a circle or parallel of altitude. Two stars which have the same almucantar have the same altitude. See Almacantar. [Archaic] Almucanter staff, an ancient instrument, having an arc of fifteen degrees, formerly used at sea to take observations of the sun's amplitude at the time of its rising or setti…

Altering; gradually changing. Bacon.