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The act or process of making white. [Obs.]

A substance produced by the action of an alkali upon albumin, and resembling casein in its properties; also, a compound formed by the union of albumin with another substance.

Shortened forms of Alcoholate.

A crystallizable compound of a salt with alcohol, in which the latter plays a part analogous to that of water of crystallization. Graham.

An alcoholic tincture prepared with fresh plants. New Eng. Dict.

Saturation with alcohol; putting the animal system under the influence of alcoholic liquor.

Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory contract. Bouvier.

Flour made of aleurone, used as a substitute for ordinary flour in preparing bread for diabetic persons.

Always; wholly; everywhere. [Obs.] Ulna now he algates must forego. Spenser.

Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from.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

The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated.

One who alienates.

State or mode of being nourished. Bacon.

See Allineation.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, fat; fatty; -- applied to compounds having an openc-hain structure. The aliphatic compounds thus include not only the fatty acids and other derivatives of the paraffin hydrocarbons, but also unsaturated compounds, as the ethylene and acetylene series.

A sterile plain, containing an excess of alkali, at the bottom of an undrained basin in an arid region; a playa.

To alkalizate. [R.] Johnson.

The act rendering alkaline by impregnating with an alkali; a conferring of alkaline qualities.

To bark as a dog. [Obs.] Stubbes.

Enticement; allurement. [Obs.] Bailey.