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Expelling or counteracting poison; antidotal.

A preservative against contagious and infectious diseases, and the effects of poison in general. Brande & C.

Resisting poison; obviating the effects of venom; alexipharmic.

A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.

y formerly including practically all of Canada east of the 115th meridian and south of Hudson's Bay and the part of the United States east of the Mississippi and north of Tennessee and Virginia, with the exception of the territory occupied by the northern Iroquoian tribes. There are nearly 100,000 Indians of the Algonq…

gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson.

The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi.

To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership. [R.] "It the son alien lands." Sir M. Hale. The prince was totally aliened from all thoughts of . . . the marriage. Clarendon.

Sprightly; lively; brisk. Richardson.

The quality which constitutes an alkali; alkaline property. Thomson.

To alkalizate. [R.] Johnson.

rything included or concerned; the aggregate; the whole; totality; everything or every person; as, our all is at stake. Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all. Shak. All that thou seest is mine. Gen. xxxi. 43.

All four legs of a quadruped; or the two legs and two arms of a person. To be, go, or run, on all fours (Fig.), to be on the same footing; to correspond (with) exactly; to be alike in all the circumstances to be considered. "This example is on all fours with the other." "No simile can go on all fours." Macaulay.…

also, Allhallows or Hallowmas; a feast day kept in honor of all the saints; also, the season of this festival.

iction or the bitterness of adversity. It would allay the burning quality of that fell poison. Shak.

erted, or declared; positive assertion; formal averment I thought their allegation but reasonable. Steele.

To produce or urge as a reason, plea, or excuse; as, he refused to lend, alleging a resolution against lending.

Allegation. [Obs.] With many complaints and allegements. Bp. Sanderson.

An exclamation signifying Praise ye Jehovah. Hence: A song of praise to God. See Hallelujah, the commoner form. I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia. Rev. xix. 1.

To extenuate; to palliate. [R.] He alleviates his fault by an excuse. Johnson.