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

Not having scales. -- n.

A North American fish (Clupea vernalis) of the Herring family. It is called also ellwife, ellwhop, branch herring. The name is locally applied to other related species.

A name given to two species of the genus Smyrnium, formerly cultivated and used as celery now is; -- called also horse parsely.

A plant (Macrochloa tenacissima) of North Africa; also, its fiber, used in paper making.

Always; wholly; everywhere. [Obs.] Ulna now he algates must forego. Spenser.

Pertaining to 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…

ad family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence.

The art of calculating with any species of notation; as, the algorithms of fractions, proportions, surds, etc.

Nutritive; nourishing.

Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.

Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference. [Now used only predicatively.] The darkness and the light are both alike to thee. Ps. cxxxix. 12.

That which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: sustenance; means of support. Aliments of theiBacon.

Supplying food; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap.

So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne.

The quality of being alimentary; nourishing quality. [R.]

State or mode of being nourished. Bacon.

Affording food; nourishing. [R.] "Alimonious humors." Harvey.

applied to compounds having an openc-hain structure. The aliphatic compounds thus include not only the fatty acids and other derivatives of the paraffin hydrocarbons, but also unsaturated compounds, as the ethylene and acetylene series.

An aliquant part of a number or quantity is one which does not divide it without leaving a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquant part of