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Lofty speech; pompous language. [R.] Bailey.

High-sounding; pompous in speech. [R.] Bailey.

An instrument for taking altitudes, as a quadrant, sextant, etc. Knight.

The art of measuring altitudes, or heights.

See Tincal.

An arrangement of lenses and mirrors which enables a person to see an object in spite of intervening objects.

High-sounding; lofty or pompous. Skelton.

Altisonant.

The part or notes situated above F in alt.

dation, above the ground, or above a given level, or of one object above another; as, the altitude of a mountain, or of a bird above the top of a tree.

Of or pertaining to height; as, altitudinal measurements.

Lofty in doctrine, aims, etc. [R.] Coleridge.

Flying high. [Obs.] Blount.

e 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 fleecy cloud formation consisting of large whitish or grayish globular cloudlets with shaded portions, often grouped in flocks or rows.

Alto-rilievo.

d work in which the figures project more than half their thickness; as, this figure is an alto-rilievo or in alto-rilievo.

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

All together; conjointly. [Obs.] Altogether they wenChaucer.

A theodolite. Knight.