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Inability to utter articulate sounds, due either to paralysis of the larynx or to that form of aphasia, called motor, or ataxis, aphasia, due to loss of control of the muscles of speech.

A thin, black silk for hoods, scarfs, etc.; -- often called simply mode. Buchanan.

Axillary; in the fork or axil. Gray.

Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in my holy mountain. Joel ii. 1.

the Roman Catholic church, worn by those in holy orders when officiating at mass. It was formerly worn, at least by clerics, in daily life.

A white metallic alloy; which is made into spoons, forks, teapots, etc. British plate or German silver. See German silver, under German.

A soft ornamental terra-cotta pottery, sold in the biscuit state for decorating.

A register for visitors' names; a visitors' book.

r hyenas, which becomes white by exposure to air. It is used in dressing leather, and was formerly used in medicine.

tion of an alkali upon albumin, and resembling casein in its properties; also, a compound formed by the union of albumin with another substance.

An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of albumen in a liquid.

One of a class of organic principles (called also proteids) which form the main part of organized tissues. Brunton.

A diffusible substance formed from albumin by the action of natural or artificial gastric juice. See Peptone.

A compound or class of compounds formed from albumin by dilute acids or by an acid solution of pepsin. Used also in combination, as antialbumose, hemialbumose.

A commander of a castle or fortress among the Spaniards, Portuguese, and Moors.

A vessel of porous earthenware, used for cooling liquids by evaporation from the exterior surface.

A fortress; also, a royal palace. Prescott.

h aimed to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It led the way to modern chemistry.

Shortened forms of Alcoholate.

emically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals; as, the radical ethyl forms common or ethyl alcohol (C2H5OH); methyl forms methyl alcohol (CH3.OH) or wood spirit; amyl forms amyl alcohol (C5H11.OH) or fusel oil, etc.