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An intoxicating liquor made from an infusion of malt by fermentation and the addition of a bitter, usually hops.

A beverage, formerly made by boiling ale with spice, sugar, and sops of bread. Their aleberries, caudles, possets. Beau. & Fl.

Sour ale; vinegar made of ale. Cecil.

An apparatus formerly used in distillation, usually made of glass or metal. It has mostly given place to the retort and worm still. Used also metaphorically. The alembic of a great poet's imagination. Brimley.

Flour made of aleurone, used as a substitute for ordinary flour in preparing bread for diabetic persons.

Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture.

A kind of wine, formerly much esteemed; -- said to have been made near Alicant, in Spain. J. Fletcher.

An allowance made to a wife out of her husband's estate or income for her support, upon her divorce or legal separation from him, or during a suit for the same. Wharton. Burrill.

ond day of November; a feast day of the Roman Catholic church, on which supplications are made for the souls of the faithful dead.

The admission of an item in an account, or an allowance made upon an account; -- a term used in the English exchequer.

A writing or signature made by some person other than any of the parties thereto; -- opposed to autograph.

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

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.

Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Lyell.

A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton.

The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church.

The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition. Ere long might perceive Strange alteration in me. Milton. Appius Claudius admitted to the senate the sons of those who had been slaves; by which, and succeeding alterations, that council degenerated into a most corrupt. Swift…

Acting by turns; alternate. Milton. Altern base (Trig.), a second side made base, in distinction from a side previously regarded as base.

ternate alligation. See Alligation. -- Alternate angles (Geom.), the internal and angles made by two lines with a third, on opposite sides of it. It the parallels AB, CD, are cut by the line EF, the angles AGH, GHD, as also the angles BGH and GHC, are called alternate angles. -- Alternate generation. (Biol.) See unde…

Consisting of amber; made of amber. "Amber bracelets." Shak.