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The course of action or the thing offered in place of another. If this demand is refused the alternative is war. Lewis. With no alternative but death. Longfellow.

Grant all this; be it that; supposing that; notwithstanding; though. Although all shall be offended, yet will no I. Mark xiv. 29.

Height of degree; highest point or degree. He is [proud] even to the altitude of his virtue. Shak.

relief; sculptured work in which the figures project more than half their thickness; as, this figure is an alto-rilievo or in alto-rilievo.

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

The metallic base of alumina. This metal is white, but with a bluish tinge, and is remarkable for its resistance to oxidation, and for its lightness, pertaining a specific gravity of about 2.6. Atomic weight 27.08. Symbol Al. Aluminium bronze or gold, a pale gold- colored alloy of aluminium and copper, used for journal…

perpetually; throughout all time; continually; as, God is always the same. Even in Heaven his [Mammon's] looks and thoughts. Milton.

Same as Amalgam. They divided this their amalgama into a number of incoherent republics. Burke.

To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze. [Obs.] A labyrinth to amaze his foes. Shak.

erment [Obs.]; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration. His words impression left Of much amazement. Milton.

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

A minister of the highest rank sent a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country.

A juror who takes money from both parties for giving his verdict. Cowell.

Circuit or compass. His great parts did not live within a small ambit. Milward.

to covet. [R.] Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage. Trumbull.

or the infinitive; as, ambitious to be or to do something. I was not ambitious of seeing this ceremony. Evelyn. Studious of song, and yet ambitious not to sing in vain. Cowper.

The resiniferous tree Agathis Dammara, of the Moluccas.

An unguent of the gods. His dewy locks distilled ambrosia. Milton.

Divinely excellent or beautiful. "Shakes his ambrosial curls." Pope.

A genus of birds, or one of this genus.