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To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount.

Applied to those days when the holy sacrifice is not offered. Shipley.

The whole quantity, extent, duration, amount, quality, or degree of; the whole; the whole number of; any whatever; every; as, all the wheat; all the land; all the year; all the strength; all happiness; all abundance; loss of all power; beyond all doubt; you will see us all (or all of us). Prove all things: hold fast th…

rical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to allegorize it.

To lighten or lessen the force or weight of. [Obs.] Should no others join capable to alleviate the expense. Evelyn. Those large bladders . . . conduce much to the alleviating of the body [of flying birds]. Ray.

An address; a hortatory or authoritative address as of a pope to his clergy. Addison.

One who holds allodial land.

One who holds an allodium.

which aims to combat disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the special disease treated; -- a term invented by Hahnemann to designate the ordinary practice, as opposed to homeopathy.

To like; to be suited or pleased with. [Obs.] How allow you the model of these clothes Massinger.

The first day of November, called, also, Allhallows or Hallowmas; a feast day kept in honor of all the saints; also, the season of this festival.

hese speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use. Hooker.

The act alluring; temptation; enticement. Though Adam by his wife's allurement fell. Milton.

A gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H4, homologous with acetylene; propine. CH3.C.CH

e often added, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc. Nautical almanac, an almanac, or year book, containing astronomical calculations (lunar, stellar, etc.), and other information useful to mariners.…

One who distributes alms, esp. the doles and alms of religious houses, almshouses, etc.; also, one who dispenses alms for another, as the almoner of a prince, bishop, etc.

Persons supported by alms; almsmen. [Archaic] Holinshed.

A house appropriated for the use of the poor; a poorhouse.

A small circle of the sphere parallel to the horizon; a circle or parallel of altitude. Two stars which have the same almucantar have the same altitude. See Almacantar. [Archaic] Almucanter staff, an ancient instrument, having an arc of fifteen degrees, formerly used at sea to take observations of the sun's amplitude a…

Same as Amice, a hood or cape.