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47,468 words match “AL”

ALMSDEED n.
An act of charity. Acts ix. 36.
ALMSFOLK n.
Persons supported by alms; almsmen. [Archaic] Holinshed.
ALMSGIVER n.
A giver of alms.
ALMSGIVING n.
The giving of alms.
ALMSHOUSE n.
A house appropriated for the use of the poor; a poorhouse.
ALMSMAN n. 2 definitions
A recipient of alms. Shak.
ALMUCANTAR n.
A small circle of the sphere parallel 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 a…
ALMUCE n.
Same as Amice, a hood or cape.
ALMUDE n.
A measure for liquids in several countries. In Portugal the Lisbon almude is about 4.4, and the Oporto almude about 6.6, gallons U. S. measure. In Turkey the "almud" is about 1.4 gallons.
ALMUG; ALGUM n.
A tree or wood of the Bible (2 Chron. ii. 8; 1 K. x. 11).
ALNAGE n.
Measurement (of cloth) by the ell; also, a duty for such measurement.
ALNAGER n.
ficer in England, whose duty was to inspect act measure woolen cloth, and fix upon it a seal.
ALOE n. 3 definitions
The wood of the agalloch. [Obs.] Wyclif.
ALOES WOOD n.
See Agalloch.
ALOETIC a. 2 definitions
Consisting chiefly of aloes; of the nature of aloes.
ALOFT adv. 3 definitions
On high; in the air; high above the ground. "He steers his flight aloft." Milton.
ALOGIAN n.
One of an ancient sect who rejected St. John's Gospel and the Apocalypse, which speak of Christ as the Logos. Shipley.
ALOGY n.
Unreasonableness; absurdity. [Obs.]
ALOIN n.
A bitter purgative principle in aloes.
ALOMANCY n.
Divination by means of salt. [Spelt also halomancy.] Morin.
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