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A diseased condition of the system, brought about by the continued use of alcoholic liquors.

The condition, position, or office of an alderman. Fabyan.

In a leaking condition.

The state or legal condition of being an alien.

The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage. The law was very gentle in the construction of the disability of alienism. Kent.

or pertaining to allotropism. -- Al`lo*trop"ic*al*ly, adv. Allotropic state, the several conditions which occur in a case of allotropism.

The property of existing in two or more conditions which are distinct in their physical or chemical relations.

ther partially or wholly; to vary; to modify. "To alter the king's course." "To alter the condition of a man." "No power in Venice can alter a decree." Shak. It gilds all objects, but it alters none. Pope. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Ps. lxxxix. 34.…

Capable of being altered. Our condition in this world is mutable and uncertain, alterable by a thousand accidents. Rogers.

The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition. Ere long might 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…

-- a term applied to those birds whose young are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care of their parents for some time; -- opposed to præcoces.

The condition of being amazed; bewilderment [Obs.]; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration. His words impression left Of much amazement. Milton.

ter; to improve; to meliorate. In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition. Macaulay.

Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye. -- Am`e*trop"ic, a.

Resembling or containing amyl; starchlike. Amyloid degeneration (Med.), a diseased condition of various organs of the body, produced by the deposit of an albuminous substance, giving a blue color with iodine and sulphuric acid; -- called also waxy or lardaceous degeneration.

A morbid condition in which the blood is deficient in quality or in quantity.

The process of anæsthetizing; also, the condition of the nervous system induced by anæsthetics.

The resolving of problems by reducing the conditions that are in them to equations.

Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Addison.

To fix or fasten; to fix in a stable condition; as, to anchor the cables of a suspension bridge. Till that my nails were anchored in thine eyes. Shak.