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A work published under the name of some one other than the author.

Published under the name of some one other than the author.

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

e, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short. I can give the boy a handsome allowance. Thackeray.

along, to get on; to make progress, as in business. "She 'll get along in heaven better than you or I." Mrs. Stowe.

Without sympathy; unfavorably. To make the Bible as from the hand of God, and then to look at it aloof and with caution, is the worst of all impieties. I. Taylor.

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify. "To alter the king's course." "To alter the condition of a man." "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…

Altering; gradually changing. Bacon.

The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition. Ere long might perceive Strange alteration in me. Milton. Appius Claudius admitted to the senate the sons of those who had been slaves; by which, and succeeding alterations, that council degenerated into a most corrupt. Swift…

Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health. Burton.

A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.

A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.

een two things, so that if one is taken, the other must be left. There is something else than the mere alternative of absolute destruction or unreformed existence. Burke.

High relief; sculptured work in which the figures project more than half their thickness; as, this figure is an alto-rilievo or in alto-rilievo.

The channel of a river. Weate.

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

Of a purplish color. Buchanan.

. [Obs. or Archaic] The Silures, to amate the new general, rumored the overthrow greater than was true. Milton.

decay of sight, from loss of power in the optic nerve, without any perceptible external change in the eye; -- called also gutta serena, the "drop serene" of Milton.

Using both hands with equal ease. Smollett.