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Belonging to or resembling the Acalephæ or jellyfishes.

Not defective; complete; as, an acatalectic verse. -- n.

Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.

Incapable of being comprehended; incomprehensible.

A tendency to become alkaline; or the state of a substance in which alkaline properties begin to be developed, or to predominant. Ure.

Tending to the properties of an alkali; slightly alkaline.

A variety of shale or clay slate, containing iron pyrites, the decomposition of which leads to the formation of alum, which often effloresces on the rock.

Relating to analects; made up of selections; as, an analectic magazine.

A collection of literary fragments.

A scale of the sun's declination for each day of the year, drawn across the torrid zone on an artificial terrestrial globe.

Recovery of strength after sickness.

Restorative; giving strength after disease. -- n.

One who, or that which, anneals.

One who makes an appeal.

ice for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc. [Written also arbalet and arblast.] Fosbroke.

A crossbowman. [Obs.] Speed.

To descend; to fall; to dismount. [Obs.] And from their sweaty courses did avale. Spenser.

A genus of showy flowering shrubs, mostly natives of China or of North America; false honeysuckle. The genus is scarcely distinct from Rhododendron.

oods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation; also, a bundle of straw Bale of dice, a pair of dice. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

o the isles of Majorca, Minorca, Ivica, etc., in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Valencia. Balearic crane. (Zoöl.) See Crane.