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Of or pertaining to the Koran.

Of or pertaining to the Alcyonaria.

Like or pertaining to the Alcyonaria. -- n.

Of or pertaining to aldehyde; as, aldehydic acid. Miller.

A senior or superior; a person of rank or dignity. [Obs.]

Pertaining to, or like, an alderman.

made of aleurone, used as a substitute for ordinary flour in preparing bread for diabetic persons.

Of or pertaining to a chain of islands between Alaska and Kamtchatka; also, designating these islands.

Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt; as, the Alexandrian library.

A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.

Pertaining to, or like, algæ.

Of or pertaining to algebra; containing an operation of algebra, or deduced from such operation; as, algebraic characters; algebraical writings. Algebraic curve, a curve such that the equation which expresses the relation between the coördinates of its points involves only the ordinary operations of algebra; -- opposed…

To perform by algebra; to reduce to algebraic form.

Of or pertaining to Algeria. -- n.

Of or pertaining to Algiers or Algeria.

A fixed star, in Medusa's head, in the constellation Perseus, remarkable for its periodic variation in brightness.

Of or pertaining to algology; as, algological specimens.

(Geol.) Pertaining to or designating a period or era recognized by the United States Geological Survey and some other authorities, between the Archæan and the Paleozoic, from both of which it is generally separated in the record by unconformities. Algonkian rocks are both sedimentary and igneous. Although fossils are…

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…

Of or pertaining to the algæ, or seaweeds; abounding with, or like, seaweed.