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To employ or place so as to make alliteration. Skeat.

out 2.6. Atomic weight 27.08. Symbol Al. Aluminium bronze or gold, a pale gold- colored alloy of aluminium and copper, used for journal bearings, etc.

gus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter. Ure.

An alloy of mercury with another metal or metals; as, an amalgam of tin, bismuth, etc.

To compound or mix, as quicksilver, with another metal; to unite, combine, or alloy with mercury.

A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.

which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ. Quian.

A unit, employed in calculating fall of pressure in distributing mains, equivalent to a current of one ampère flowing through one foot of conductor.

A crystalline compound used as an antipyretic and analgesic, employed chiefly in rheumatism and neuralgia. It is a complex derivative of quinoline.

To employ, or reason by, analogy.

angle meet; the vertex. -- Angular velocity, the ratio of anuglar motion to the time employed in describing.

A priest employed in saying annuals, or anniversary Masses. [Obs.] Chaucer.

r to be responsible; to be accountable; to make amends; as, the man must answer to his employer for the money intrusted to his care. Let his neck answer for it, if there is any martial law. Shak.

Good against convulsions. J. Floyer.

A letter, or a combination of letters, employed in spelling a word, but in the pronunciation having no sound. -- Aph*thon"gal, a.

The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use. If a right course . . . be taken with children, there will not be much need of the application of the common rewards and punishments. Locke.

To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate; to devote; as, to apply money to the payment of a debt.

tion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments.

s occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed.

h great labor, like the ascending of acclivities; difficult; laborious; as, an arduous employment, task, or enterprise.