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An ally; a confederate. [Obs. & R.] Sir H. Wotton.

Attractive power; attractiveness. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

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

A kind of pipe wrench having a flaring jaw with teeth on one side.

A writing or signature made by some person other than any of the parties thereto; -- opposed to autograph.

The quality, or comparative purity, of gold or silver; fineness.

To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love. These three did love each other dearly well, And with so firm affection were allied. Spenser. The virtue nearest to our vice allied. Pope.

A boat used at Calicut, in India, about eighty feet long, and six or seven broad.

he astronomical observations and theories of the ancients. The name was extended to other similar works.

A fine, deep red ocher, somewhat purplish, found in Spain. It is the sil atticum of the ancients. Under the name of Indian red it is used for polishing glass and silver.

One of the tonsils. Almond oil, fixed oil expressed from sweet or bitter almonds. -- Oil of bitter almonds, a poisonous volatile oil obtained from bitter almonds by maceration and distillation; benzoic aldehyde. -- Imitation oil of bitter almonds, nitrobenzene. -- Almond tree (Bot.), the tree bearing the almond. --…

juice of several species of aloe, used as a purgative. [Plural in form but syntactically singular.] American aloe, Century aloe, the agave. See Agave.

Quite by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solitary; -- applied to a person or thing. Alone on a wide, wide sea. Coleridge. It is not good that the man should be alone. Gen. ii. 18.

Only; merely; singly. [Obs.] This said spirit was not given alonely unto him, but unto all his heirs and posterity. Latimer.

Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree.

A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton.

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

A sensitized paper for obtaining positives by artificial light. It is coated with gelatin containing silver bromide and chloride. [Eng.]

A direction for the performer to return and recommence from the sign

An instrument for taking azimuths and altitudes simultaneously.