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A kind of dance. See Allemande. Almain rivets, Almayne rivets, or Alman rivets, a sort of light armor from Germany, characterized by overlapping plates, arranged to slide on rivets, and thus afford great flexibility.

The common red variety of garnet.

Omnipotence; infinite or boundless power; unlimited might. Jer. Taylor.

An almoner. [Obs.] Spenser.

See Almandine

One who distributes alms, esp. the doles and alms of religious houses, almshouses, etc.; also, one who dispenses alms for another, as the almoner of a prince, bishop, etc.

The office of an almoner.

Quite by one's self; 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.

A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness. [R.] Bp. Montagu.

State of being aloof. Rogers (1642). The . . . aloofness of his dim forest life. Thoreau.

Pertaining to the Alps, or other high mountains; as, Alpestrine diseases, etc.

Of or relating to Alphonso X., the Wise, King of Castile (1252- 1284). Alphonsine tables, astronomical tables prepared under the patronage of Alphonso the Wise. Whewell.

Growing in Alpine regions.

Of or pertaining to the Alps, or to any lofty mountain; as, Alpine snows; Alpine plants.

The quality of being alterable; variableness; alterability.

The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns.

The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two.

Asparagine.

A subsulphate of alumina and potash; alunite.