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Pertaining to, contained in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.

An overflowing; an inundation; a flood. Lyell.

Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal. And bid alternate passions fall and rise. Pope.

The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns.

The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear.

On the following morning. [Obs.] Chaucer.

alculating fall of pressure in distributing mains, equivalent to a current of one ampère flowing through one foot of conductor.

indicating, a cavity in the lungs, not filled, and giving a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter; as, amphoric respiration or resonance.

ttle air, the bottom springs into a concave form with a smart crack; and by breathing or blowing gently into the orifice, the bottom, with a like noise, springs into its former convex form.

Moving moderately slow, but distinct and flowing; quicker than larghetto, and slower than allegretto. -- n.

tion; -- contrasted with angle of trail, which is the angle between the tangent to the following edge and the line of motion.

The process used to render glass, iron, etc., less brittle, performed by allowing them to cool very gradually from a high heat.

year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly. The annual overflowing of the river [Nile]. Ray.

To be opposite to; to face. The windows answering each other, we could just discern the glowing horizon them. Gilpin.

A tropical wind blowing steadily in a direction opposite to the trade wind.

Fit for plowing or tillage; -- hence, often applied to land which has been plowed or tilled.

Plowing; tillage. [R.] Lands are said to be in a state of aration when they are under tillage. Brande.

Having the appearance or quality of fire; fierce; glowing; shining; as, ardent eyes. Dryden.

Accompanying, connected with, or immediately following, as consequential; consequent; as, intemperance with all its attendant evils. The natural melancholy attendant upon his situation added to the gloom of the owner of the mansion. Sir W. Scott.

ed into the United States from Ireland in 1790. -- Augustinian nuns, an order of nuns following the rule of St. Augustine. -- Augustinian rule, a rule for religious communities based upon the 109th letter of St. Augustine, and adopted by the Augustinian orders.