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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 thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton.

A curved wooden horn about three feet long, with a cupped mouthpiece and a bell, used by the Swiss to sound the ranz des vaches and other melodies. Its notes are open harmonics of the tube.

A long staff, pointed with iron, used in climbing the Alps. Cheever.

A sensitized paper for obtaining positives by artificial light. It is coated with gelatin containing silver bromide and chloride. [Eng.]

Pertaining to, furnished with, expressed by, or in the order of, the letters of the alphabet; as, alphabetic characters, writing, languages, arrangement.

To furnish with an alphabet.

A species of clover with pinkish or white flowers; Trifolium hybridum.

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

A medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations.

The contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle.

Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest. "Stormy altercations." Macaulay.

. See Alligation. -- Alternate angles (Geom.), the internal and angles made by two lines with a third, on opposite sides of it. It the parallels AB, CD, are cut by the line EF, the angles AGH, GHD, as also the angles BGH and GHC, are called alternate angles. -- Alternate generation. (Biol.) See under Generation.…

By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent.

The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. Mason. Alternation of generation. See under Generation.

ing offered in place of another. If this demand is refused the alternative is war. Lewis. With no alternative but death. Longfellow.

Grant all this; be it that; supposing that; notwithstanding; though. Although all shall be offended, yet will no I. Mark xiv. 29.

A fleecy cloud formation consisting of large whitish or grayish globular cloudlets with shaded portions, often grouped in flocks or rows.

Without exception; wholly; completely. Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Ps. xxxix. 5.

One imbued with altruism; -- opposed to egoist.