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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.

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.

by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy; -- often followed by to or with. O chief! in blood, and now in arms allied. Pope.

A boat used at Calicut, in India, about eighty feet long, and six or seven broad.

The lofty Brazil-nut tree.

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

By the length; in a line with the length; lengthwise. Some laid along . . . on spokes of wheels are hung. Dryden.

See Longshoreman.

from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away. Our palace stood aloof from streets. Dryden.

Loss of the hair; baldness.

With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly. Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice. Isa. lviii. 1.

Below; in a lower part. "Aloft, and then alow." Dryden.

in. 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.

An animal of Peru (Lama paco), having long, fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of the llama.

A curved wooden horn about three feet long, with a cupped mouthpiece and a bell, used by the Swiss to sound the ranz des vaches and other melodies. Its notes are open harmonics of the tube.

A long staff, pointed with iron, used in climbing the Alps. Cheever.

Rays of relatively low penetrating power emitted by radium and other radioactive substances, and shown to consist of positively charged particles (perhaps particles of helium) having enormous velocities but small masses. They are slightly deflected by a strong magnetic or electric field.

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

r Alsace in Germany, or of Alsatia or White Friars (a resort of debtors and criminals) in London.

A raised structure (as a square or oblong erection of stone or wood) on which sacrifices are offered or incense burned to a deity. Noah builded an altar unto the Lord. Gen. viii. 20.