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emically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals; as, the radical ethyl forms common or ethyl alcohol (C2H5OH); methyl forms methyl alcohol (CH3.OH) or wood spirit; amyl forms amyl alcohol (C5H11.OH) or fusel oil, etc.

s to indicate the percentage of pure alcohol, either by weight or volume. It is usually a form of hydrometer with a special scale.

The Mohammedan Scriptures; the Koran (now the usual form). [Spelt also Alcoran.]

onaria, its polyps somewhat resembling flowers with eight fringed rays. The term was also formerly used for certain species of sponges.

A beverage, formerly made by boiling ale with spice, sugar, and sops of bread. Their aleberries, caudles, possets. Beau. & Fl.

Applied to those ova which segment uniformly, and which have little or no food yelk embedded in their protoplasm. Balfour.

The plant costmary, which was formerly much used for flavoring ale.

An apparatus formerly used in distillation, usually made of glass or metal. It has mostly given place to the retort and worm still. Used also metaphorically. The alembic of a great poet's imagination. Brimley.

f the alchemists, a double salt composed of the chlorides of ammonium and mercury. It was formerly used as a stimulant. Brande & C.

One of the cultivated forms of Andropogon Halepensis (syn. Sorghum Halepense). See Andropogon, below.

A name given to two species of the genus Smyrnium, formerly cultivated and used as celery now is; -- called also horse parsely.

aroth, a white powder which is a compound of trichloride and trioxide of antimony. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic, purgative, and diaphoretic.

To perform by algebra; to reduce to algebraic form.

æan 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.

the most extensive of the linguistic families of North American Indians, their territory formerly including practically all of Canada east of the 115th meridian and south of Hudson's Bay and the part of the United States east of the Mississippi and north of Tennessee and Virginia, with the exception of the territory o…

One of a widely spread family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence.

A kind of wine, formerly much esteemed; -- said to have been made near Alicant, in Spain. J. Fletcher.

a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. Macaulay. The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present. I. Taylor.

To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line; to aline.

of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also, the line of adjustment; esp., an imaginary line to regulate the formation of troops or of a squadron.