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The European shad (Clupea vulgaris); allice shad. See Alose.

Any machine with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator; as, (a) (Metal Working)

An address; a hortatory or authoritative address as of a pope to his clergy. Addison.

Freehold estate; land which is the absolute property of the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud. Blackstone. Bouvier.

The property which constitutes an allomorph; the change involved in becoming an allomorph.

A depraved appetite; a desire for improper food.

Allotropic property or nature.

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

To change in physical properties but not in substance. [R.]

Proper to be, or capable of being, allowed; permissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends.

That which allures; any real or apparent good held forth, or operating, as a motive to action; as, the allurements of pleasure, or of honor.

confederacy; -- often followed by to or with. O chief! in blood, and now in arms allied. Pope.

The European shad (Clupea alosa); -- called also allice shad or allis shad. The name is sometimes applied to the American shad (Clupea sapidissima). See Shad.

A very high mountain. Specifically, in the plural, the highest chain of mountains in Europe, containing the lofty mountains of Switzerland, etc. Nor breath of vernal air from snowy alp. Milton. Hills peep o'er hills, and alps on alps arise. Pope.

a bell, used by the Swiss to sound the ranz des vaches and other melodies. Its notes are open harmonics of the tube.

In the proper position of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south. Shipley.

"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.

rst one and then the other; hence, reciprocal. And bid alternate passions fall and rise. Pope.

, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear.

One of the pear-shaped pots open at both ends, and so formed as to be fitted together, the neck of one into the bottom of another in succession; -- used in the process of sublimation. Ure.