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One of a board or body of municipal officers next in order to the mayor and having a legislative function. They may, in some cases, individually exercise some magisterial and administrative functions.

ains of corn placed on the letters of the alphabet, the letters being put together in the order in which the grains were eaten. Amer. Cyc.

he helm of a ship is alee when pressed close to the lee side. Hard alee, or Luff alee, an order to put the helm to the lee side.

A narrow passage; especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered way. I know each lane and every alley green. Milton.

"Allowed." The word allocatur expresses the allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer.

The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.

Pertaining to, furnished with, expressed by, or in the order of, the letters of the alphabet; as, alphabetic characters, writing, languages, arrangement.

In an alphabetic manner; in the customary order of the letters.

representatives of equal rank, sometimes determined by lot and at other times in regular order. The practice obtains in the signing of treaties and conventions between nations.

In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants differing from the lily family chiefly in having the ovary below the

The exterior edge or border of a thing, as the border of a leaf, or the outline of a bivalve shell.

An order of ganoid fishes of which Amis is type. See Bowfin and Ganoidei.

Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice.

y cellular, and no distinct sexual organs; -- a term applied by De Candolle to the lowest order of plants.

Belonging to, or resembling, a family, or order, of plants of which the cashew tree is the type, and the species of sumac are well known examples.

A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.

A species of epileptic attack, originating from gastric disorder.

A syllabus, or table of the principal heads of a discourse, disposed in their natural order.

Hence, confusion or disorder, in general. There being then . . . an anarchy, as I may term it, in authors and their reFuller.