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Supplying food; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap.

So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne.

The quality of being alimentary; nourishing quality. [R.]

Affording food; nourishing. [R.] "Alimonious humors." Harvey.

One who adjusts things to a line or lines or brings them into line. Evelyn.

ne of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, potash, ammoma, and lithia, whose distinguishing peculiarities are solubility in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue. Fixed al…

ance; loss of all power; beyond all doubt; you will see us all (or all of us). Prove all things: hold fast that which is good. 1 Thess. v. 21.

gorical application." Pope. Allegorical being . . . that kind of language which says one thing, but means another. Max Miller. Al`le*gor"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Al`le*gor"ic*al*ness, n.

One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist.

Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an emblem.

The act of tying together or attaching by some bond, or the state of being attached. [R.]

Any machine with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator; as, (a) (Metal Working)

The act of dashing against, or striking upon. The boisterous allision of the sea. Woodward.

The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement. Hallam.

Anything held allodially. W. Coxe.

portion granted or distributed; that which is assigned by lot, or by the act of God; anything set apart for a special use or to a distinct party. The alloments of God and nature. L'Estrange. A vineyard and an allotment for olives and herbs. Broome.

One to whom anything is allotted; one to whom an allotment is made.

To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage.

Admixture of anything which lessens the value or detracts from; as, no happiness is without alloy. "Pure English without Latin alloy." F. Harrison.

To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to have reference to a subject not specifically and plainly mentioned; -- followed by to; as, the story alludes to a recent transaction. These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use. Hooker.