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mething precious. Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy. Shak.

e distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation.

Any of numerous neuropterous insects of the genus Sialis or allied genera. They have aquatic larvæ, which are used for bait.

Applied to those ova which segment uniformly, and which have little or no food yelk embedded in their protoplasm. Balfour.

m a real or threatened attack; a sudden attack; also, a bugle sound to give warning. "We have had an alert." Farrow. On the alert, on the lookout or watch against attack or danger; ready to act.

lehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a "bush." [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from. The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. Macaulay. The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him…

o frozen," etc., which are of frequent occurrence in our old authors, the all and the to have commonly been regarded as forming a compound adverb, equivalent in meaning to entirely, completely, altogether. But the sense of entireness lies wholly in the word all (as it does in "all forlorn," and similar expressions), an…

That which is alleged, asserted, or declared; positive assertion; formal averment I thought their allegation but reasonable. Steele.

aise to God. See Hallelujah, the commoner form. I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia. Rev. xix. 1.

That which mitigates, or makes more tolerable. I have not wanted such alleviations of life as friendship could supply. Johnson.

All the saints (in heaven). [Obs.]

or at short intervals; as in the following lines: - Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness. Milton. Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. Tennyson.

A depraved appetite; a desire for improper food.

To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest. He was allowed about three hundred pounds a year. Macaulay.

To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to have reference to a subject not specifically and plainly mentioned; -- followed by to; as, the story alludes to a recent transaction. These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use. Hooker.

ttract. With promised joys allured them on. Falconer. The golden sun in splendor likest Heaven Allured his eye. Milton.

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.

A recently invented instrument for observing the heavenly bodies as they cross a given almacantar circle. See Almucantar.