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Changing color.

To incite dogs by a call; to halloo. [Obs.]

See Agalloch.

At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away. Our palace stood aloof from streets. Dryden.

State of being aloof. Rogers (1642). The . . . aloofness of his dim forest life. Thoreau.

A North American herb (Heuchera Americana) of the Saxifrage family, whose root has astringent properties.

A room formerly in the Czar's Summer Palace in Russia, which was richly decorated with walls and fixtures made from amber. The amber was removed by occupying German troops during the Second World War and has, as of 1997, never been recovered. The room is being recreated from old photographs by Russian artisans. PJC…

A beautiful mottled and curled wood, used in cabinetwork. It is obtained from the Pterocarpus Indicus of Amboyna, Borneo, etc.

ressure in distributing mains, equivalent to a current of one ampère flowing through one foot of conductor.

The state of being an angel; angelic nature. Mrs. Browning.

A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room.

One of the mobile male reproductive bodies in the antheridia of cryptogams.

The upper, contrary-moving current of the atmosphere over a monsoon.

The state of being an ape.

Apprenticeship. [Obs.]

Trial; proof. [Archaic] Shak.

M. arundinacea, now cultivated in many hot countries. It said that the Indians used the roots to neutralize the venom in wounds made by poisoned arrows.

A shrub (Viburnum dentatum) growing in damp woods and thickets; -- so called from the long, straight, slender shoots.

One of the individual members of a compound ascidian. See Ascidioidea.

In a stooping or inclined position. Gay.