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

Having reference to something not fully expressed; containing an allusion.

Pertaining to, contained in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.

A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and various statistics are often added, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc. Nautical almanac, an almanac, or year book, co…

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

A medicine containing chiefly aloes.

gh mountain. Specifically, in the plural, the highest chain of mountains in Europe, containing the lofty mountains of Switzerland, etc. Nor breath of vernal air from snowy alp. Milton. Hills peep o'er hills, and alps on alps arise. Pope.

Of or pertaining to the Alps. [R.] "The Alpen snow." J. Fletcher.

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

The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to A, and hence used to denote the beginning. In am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Rev. xxii. 13.

A sensitized paper for obtaining positives by artificial light. It is coated with gelatin containing silver bromide and chloride. [Eng.]

Pertaining to, furnished with, expressed by, or in the order of, the letters of the alphabet; as, alphabetic characters, writing, languages, arrangement.

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

Pertaining to Alsatia.

Of or pertaining to the Altai, a mountain chain in Central Asia.

mes determined by lot and at other times in regular order. The practice obtains in the signing of treaties and conventions between nations.

e to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly. The most high God, in all things appertaining unto this life, for sundry wise ends alternates the disposition of good and evil. Grew.

angement of lenses and mirrors which enables a person to see an object in spite of intervening objects.

Of or pertaining to height; as, altitudinal measurements.

Pertaining to the alula.