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osed mainly of brass, formerly used for various utensils; hence, a trumpet. [Obs.] Put to their mouths the sounding alchemy. Milton.

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

d to those ova which segment uniformly, and which have little or no food yelk embedded in their protoplasm. Balfour.

An instrument for viewing pictures by means of a lens, so as to present them in their natural proportions and relations.

o or designating the most extensive of the linguistic families of North American Indians, their territory formerly including practically all of Canada east of the 115th meridian and south of Hudson's Bay and the part of the United States east of the Mississippi and north of Tennessee and Virginia, with the exception of…

Having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.

at which is alleged, asserted, or declared; positive assertion; formal averment I thought their allegation but reasonable. Steele.

To tie; to unite by some tie. Instincts alligated to their nature. Sir M. Hale.

The property of existing in two or more conditions which are distinct in their physical or chemical relations.

ia] 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.

ague; -- usually applied to sovereigns or states; a confederate. The English soldiers and their French allies. Macaulay.

An Egyptian dancing girl; an Alma. The Almehs lift their arms in dance. Bayard Taylor.

A lead ore found in Cornwall, England, and used by potters to give a green glaze to their wares; potter's ore.

High relief; sculptured work in which the figures project more than half their thickness; as, this figure is an alto-rilievo or in alto-rilievo.

young are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care of their parents for some time; -- opposed to præcoces.

xceedingly. They on the hill, which were not yet come to blows, perceiving the fewness of their enemies, came down amain. Milton. That striping giant, ill-bred and scoffing, shouts amain. T. Parker.

Same as Amalgam. They divided this their amalgama into a number of incoherent republics. Burke.

; as, to amalgamate two races; to amalgamate one race with another. Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one. Burke.

another metal; -- applied particularly to the process of separating gold and silver from their ores by mixing them with mercury. Ure.

A family of plants much esteemed for their beauty, including the narcissus, jonquil, daffodil, agave, and others.