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of, others; single; solitary; -- applied to a person or thing. Alone on a wide, wide sea. Coleridge. It is not good that the man should be alone. Gen. ii. 18.

s highway. Numb. xxi. 22. He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. Coleridge.

To geld. [Colloq.]

Characterized by wrangling; scolding. [R.] Fielding.

the feeling of otherness (alterity) rendered intuitive, or alterity visually represented. Coleridge.

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

Elevation of spirits; heroics; haughty airs. [Colloq.] Richardson. The man of law began to get into his altitude. Sir W. Scott. Meridian altitude, an arc of the meridian intercepted between the south point on the horizon and any point on the meridian. See Meridian, 3.

Lofty in doctrine, aims, etc. [R.] Coleridge.

vity of about 2.6. Atomic weight 27.08. Symbol Al. Aluminium bronze or gold, a pale gold- colored alloy of aluminium and copper, used for journal bearings, etc.

A female pupil; especially, a graduate of a school or college.

A pupil; especially, a graduate of a college or other seminary of learning.

Of a pale brown color; leather-yellow. Brande.

A kind of cold cream prepared from almonds, for chapped hands, etc.

A color inclining to purple.

Of a purplish color. Buchanan.

To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases. The life Homer has been written by amassing all the traditions and hints the writers could meet with. Pope.

An instrument of horn used for collecting painters' colors on the stone in the process of grinding.

An amassing; a heap collected; a large quantity or number brought together; an accumulation. An amassment of imaginary conceptions. Glanvill.

A variety of feldspar, having a verdigris-green color.

Amber color, or anything amber-colored; a clear light yellow; as, the amber of the sky.