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A woman who keeps an alehouse. Gay.

A name given to two species of the genus Smyrnium, formerly cultivated and used as celery now is; -- called also horse parsely.

As used by some, inability to read aloud, due to brain disease.

A plant (Macrochloa tenacissima) of North Africa; also, its fiber, used in paper making.

A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.

A term used for the Powder of Algaroth, a white powder which is a compound of trichloride and trioxide of antimony. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic, purgative, and diaphoretic.

Otherwise; otherwise called; -- a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson.

; -- with from. The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. Macaulay. The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present. I. Taylor.

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

ding from the mouth to the anus, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the useless parts ejected.

te (Glauber's salt), which is less injurious to vegetation. Black alkali is so called because water containing it dissolves humus, forming a dark-colored solution which, when it collects in puddles and evaporates, produces characteristic black spots.

y; completely; altogether; entirely; quite; very; as, all bedewed; my friend is all for amusement. "And cheeks all pale." Byron.

The name of the Supreme Being, in use among the Arabs and the Mohammedans generally.

A kind of light armor used in the sixteenth century, esp. by the Swiss. Fairholt.

To produce or urge as a reason, plea, or excuse; as, he refused to lend, alleging a resolution against lending.

To use allegory. Holland.

ravate. The calamity of the want of the sense of hearing is much alleviated by giving the use of letters. Bp. Horsley.

The admission of an item in an account, or an allowance made upon an account; -- a term used in the English exchequer.

That system of medical practice which aims to combat disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the special disease treated; -- a term invented by Hahnemann to designate the ordinary practice, as opposed to homeopathy.

ed; that which is assigned by lot, or by the act of God; anything set apart for a special use or to a distinct party. The alloments of God and nature. L'Estrange. A vineyard and an allotment for olives and herbs. Broome.