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The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. Without the king's will or the state's allowance. Shak.

By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.

One who allows or permits.

An oxidation product of uric acid. It is of a pale reddish color, readily soluble in water or alcohol.

A combination of alloxanic acid and a base or base or positive radical.

Of or pertaining to alloxan; -- applied to an acid obtained by the action of soluble alkalies on alloxan.

A substance produced by acting upon uric with warm and very dilute nitric acid.

compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam.

Any steel containing a notable quantity of some other metal alloyed with the iron, usually chromium, nickel, manganese, tungsten, or vanadium.

The act or art of alloying metals; also, the combination or alloy.

The wood of the agalloch. [Obs.] Wyclif.

See Agalloch.

Consisting chiefly of aloes; of the nature of aloes.

On high; in the air; high above the ground. "He steers his flight aloft." Milton.

ient sect who rejected St. John's Gospel and the Apocalypse, which speak of Christ as the Logos. Shipley.

Unreasonableness; absurdity. [Obs.]

A bitter purgative principle in aloes.

Divination by means of salt. [Spelt also halomancy.] Morin.

apart from, or exclusive 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.

Only; merely; singly. [Obs.] This said spirit was not given alonely unto him, but unto all his heirs and posterity. Latimer.