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re tolerable. I have not wanted such alleviations of life as friendship could supply. Johnson.

The persons or parties allied. Udall.

born of earth, upheaved His vastness. Milton. Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. Tennyson.

An address; a hortatory or authoritative address as of a pope to his clergy. Addison.

A writing or signature made by some person other than any of the parties thereto; -- opposed to autograph.

The name of another person assumed by the author of a work.

t which Providence allots him. Ten years I will allot to the attainment of knowledge. Johnson.

The allowance of a specific amount of scrip or of a particular thing to a particular person. Cottage allotment, an allotment of a small portion of land to a country laborer for garden cultivation. [Eng.]

To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent.

acts from; as, no happiness is without alloy. "Pure English without Latin alloy." F. Harrison.

Alluvial. [R.] Johnson.

nd oil, fixed oil expressed from sweet or bitter almonds. -- Oil of bitter almonds, a poisonous volatile oil obtained from bitter almonds by maceration and distillation; benzoic aldehyde. -- Imitation oil of bitter almonds, nitrobenzene. -- Almond tree (Bot.), the tree bearing the almond. -- Almond willow (Bot.), a…

Persons supported by alms; almsmen. [Archaic] Holinshed.

Unreasonableness; absurdity. [Obs.]

by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solitary; -- applied to a person or thing. Alone on a wide, wide sea. Coleridge. It is not good that the man should be alone. Gen. ii. 18.

g the whole time; throughout. "I have all along declared this to be a neutral paper." Addison. -- To get along, to get on; to make progress, as in business. "She 'll get along in heaven better than you or I." Mrs. Stowe.

Like the Alps; lofty. "Gazing up an Alpine height." Tennyson.

The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes. Shipley.

ght perceive Strange alteration in me. Milton. Appius Claudius admitted to the senate the sons of those who had been slaves; by which, and succeeding alterations, that council degenerated into a most corrupt. Swift.

The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. Mason. Alternation of generation. See under Generation.