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A species of clover with pinkish or white flowers; Trifolium hybridum.

Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal. And bid alternate passions fall and rise. Pope.

The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns.

A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.

The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear.

is demand is refused the alternative is war. Lewis. With no alternative but death. Longfellow.

A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks.

rly the part sung by the highest male, or counter-tenor, voices; now the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, between in tenor and soprano. In instrumental music it now signifies the tenor.

A cloud formation similar to cirro-stratus, but heavier and at a lower level.

Of a pale brown color; leather-yellow. Brande.

The hollow of the external ear. Quincy.

nvariably; uniformly; -- opposed to sometimes or occasionally. He always rides a black galloway. Bulwer.

weet alyssum (A. maritimum), cultivated for bouquets, bears small, white, sweet- scented flowers.

force; vigorously; violently; exceedingly. They on the hill, which were not yet come to blows, perceiving the fewness of their enemies, came down amain. Milton. That striping giant, ill-bred and scoffing, shouts amain. T. Parker.

A fragrant flower. Tennyson.

An imaginary flower supposed never to fade. [Poetic]

Unfading, as the poetic amaranth; undying. They only amaranthine flower on earth Is virtue. Cowper.

sembling, an order of plants differing from the lily family chiefly in having the ovary below the

A yellowish translucent resin resembling copal, found as a fossil in alluvial soils, with beds of lignite, or on the seashore in many places. It takes a fine polish, and is used for pipe mouthpieces, beads, etc., and as a basis for a fine varnish. By friction, it becomes strongly electric.

which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often variegated like marble. The floating masses are sometimes from sixty to two hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212º Fahrenheit, and is highly valued in p…