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are there [in California and Australia] spread over a far wider space: they are found not only on the banks of rivers, and in their beds, but are scattered over the surface of vast plains. R. Cobden.

Of or by itself; by themselves; without any thing more or any one else; without a sharer; only. Man shall not live by bread alone. Luke iv. 4. The citizens alone should be at the expense. Franklin.

Only; merely; singly. [Obs.] This said spirit was not given alonely unto him, but unto all his heirs and posterity. Latimer.

(Now heard only in the prep. phrase along of.) Along of, Along on, often shortened to Long of, prep. phr., owing to; on account of. [Obs. or Low. Eng.] "On me is not along thin evil fare." Chaucer. "And all this is long of you." Shak. "This increase of price is all along of the foreigners." London Punch.…

hings or propositions offered to one's choice. Thus when two things offer a choice of one only, the two things are called alternatives. Having to choose between two alternatives, safety and war, you obstinately prefer the worse. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

The strawberry finch, a small Indian song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill. [Written also amaduvad and avadavat.]

Unfading, as the poetic amaranth; undying. They only amaranthine flower on earth Is virtue. Cowper.

ion of American institutions by keeping Roman Catholics out of public office. Abbrev. commonly to A. P .A.

There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having existed only in the Mesozoic age, when they were exceedingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu…

c hydrocarbons, C5H10, of the ethylene series. The colorless, volatile, mobile liquid commonly called amylene is a mixture of different members of the group.

This word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically. In such expressions as "twice an hour," "once an age," a shilling an ounce (see 2d A, 2), it has a distributive force, and is…

That part of optics which treats of the refraction of light; -- commonly called dioptrics. Encyc. Brit.

e presence or absence of free oxygen; obligate, or obligatory, anaërobia when they thrive only in its absence.

One who analyzes; formerly, one skilled in algebraical geometry; now commonly, one skilled in chemical analysis.

estroyed himself. Locke. Anathema Maranatha Etym: (see 1 Cor. xvi. 22), an expression commonly considered as a highly intensified form of anathema. Maran atha is now considered as a separate sentence, meaning, "Our Lord cometh."

Producing one seed only in a seed pod.

structive to wheat and other grain. The larva eats out the inferior of the grain, leaving only the shell.

A small lemuroid mammal (Arctocebus Calabarensis) of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.

To take notice; to observe; -- commonly followed by that. Dr. H. More.

A writer of annals. The monks . . . were the only annalists in those ages. Hume.