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To convert into alcohol; to rectify; also, to saturate with alcohol.

An instrument for determining the strength of spirits, with a scale graduated so as to indicate the percentage of pure alcohol, either by weight or volume. It is usually a form of hydrometer with a special scale.

A small ornamental building with seats, or an arched seat, in a pleasure ground; a garden bower. Cowper.

A genus of fleshy Alcyonaria, its polyps somewhat resembling flowers with eight fringed rays. The term was also formerly used for certain species of sponges.

(Angling) An artificial fly with brown mottled wings, body of peacock harl, and black legs.

A duty payable to the lord mayor of London by the sellers of ale within the city.

A beverage, formerly made by boiling ale with spice, sugar, and sops of bread. Their aleberries, caudles, possets. Beau. & Fl.

A fish without scales.

Brisk; nimble; moving with celerity. An alert young fellow. Addison.

An alloy of nickel and silver electroplated with silver.

Notwithstanding; yet. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An instrument for measuring sensations of pain due to pressure. It has a piston rod with a blunted tip which is pressed against the skin. -- Al*gom"e*try (#), n. -- Al`go*met"ric (#), *met"ric*al (#), a. --Al`go*met"ric*al*ly, adv.

he 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 Algonquian tribes, of which the strongest are the Ojibwas (Chippewas), Ottawas, Crees, Algonquins, Micmacs, and…

The art of calculating with any species of notation; as, the algorithms of fractions, proportions, surds, etc.

Of or pertaining to the algæ, or seaweeds; abounding with, or like, seaweed.

A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.

Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion. An alien sound of melancholy. Wordsworth. Alien enemy (Law), one who owes allegiance to a government at war with ours. Abbott.

Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from. O alienate from God. Milton.

A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections. The alienation of his heart from the king. Bacon.

Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference. [Now used only predicatively.] The darkness and the light are both alike to thee. Ps. cxxxix. 12.