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To cover or saturate with albumen; to coat or treat with an albuminous solution; as, to albuminize paper.

A magistrate or judge in Spain and in Spanish America, etc. Prescott.

To convert into alcohol; to rectify; also, to saturate with alcohol.

A native or one of the people of Algiers or Algeria. Also, a pirate.

uthorities, between the Archæan and the Paleozoic, from both of which it is generally separated in the record by unconformities. Algonkian rocks are both sedimentary and igneous. Although fossils are rare, life certainly existed in this period. -- n.

Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture.

t only the fatty acids and other derivatives of the paraffin hydrocarbons, but also unsaturated compounds, as the ethylene and acetylene series.

solves humus, forming a dark-colored solution which, when it collects in puddles and evaporates, produces characteristic black spots.

To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate. [Archaic] Fuller.

A statement by a party of what he undertakes to prove, -- usually applied to each separate averment; the charge or matter undertaken to be proved.

A dance in moderate twofold time, invented by the French in the reign of Louis XIV.; -- now mostly found in suites of pieces, like those of Bach and Handel.

An ally; a confederate. [Obs. & R.] Sir H. Wotton.

One who alliterates.

ited to another by treaty or league; -- usually applied to sovereigns or states; a confederate. The English soldiers and their French allies. Macaulay.

The celebrated work of Ptolemy of Alexandria, which contains nearly all that is known of the astronomical observations and theories of the ancients. The name was extended to other similar works.

A kind of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter. Chambers.

ns of those who had been slaves; by which, and succeeding alterations, that council degenerated into a most corrupt. Swift.

That which alternates with something else; vicissitude. [R.] Grateful alternates of substantial. Prior.

A compound formed from the hydrate of aluminium by the substitution of a metal for the hydrogen.

A room formerly in the Czar's Summer Palace in Russia, which was richly decorated with walls and fixtures made from amber. The amber was removed by occupying German troops during the Second World War and has, as of 1997, never been recovered. The room is being recreated from old photographs by Russian artisans. PJC…