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The white polar (Populus alba). Six abeles i' the churchyard grow. Mrs. Browning.

A small fresh-water fish (Leuciscus alburnus); the bleak.

Against; also, towards (in order to meet). [Obs.] Albeit that it is again his kind. Chaucer.

The tunny. See Albicore.

An albuminoid substance which occurs in minute grains ("protein granules") in maturing seeds and tubers; -- supposed to be a modification of protoplasm.

Although; albeit. [Obs.] All they were wondrous loth. Spenser.

(Med.), a diseased condition of various organs of the body, produced by the deposit of an albuminous substance, giving a blue color with iodine and sulphuric acid; -- called also waxy or lardaceous degeneration.

rature, history; ancient days. Witness those ancient empires of the earth. Milton. Gildas Albanius . . . much ancienter than his namesake surnamed the Wise. Fuller.

A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.

constellation southerly from Lyra and Cygnus and preceding the Dolphin; the Eagle. Aquila alba Etym: [L., white eagle], an alchemical name of calomel. Brande & C.

A term applied to several different species of plants (Angelica archangelica, Lamium album, etc.).

a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building. The Alban lake . . . looks like the area of some vast amphitheater. Addison.

An inhabitant of Albania and neighboring mountainous regions, specif. one serving as a soldier in the Turkish army.

An alb. [Obs.] Fuller.

To become pregnant. [Obs.] Warner. (Alb. Eng. ).

A common American bird (Icterus galbula), named after Lord Baltimore, because its colors (black and orange red) are like those of his coat of arms; -- called also golden robin.

To lave; to wet. "The lake which bathed the foot of the Alban mountain." T. Arnold.

e of a resinous nature, obtained from the outer bark of the common European birch (Betula alba), or from the tar prepared therefrom; -- called also birch camphor. Watts.

The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast (Scomberesox saurus). (c) The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish. (d) The American fresh-water garpike (Lepidosteus osseus).

tree of several species, constituting the genus Betula; as, the white or common birch (B. alba) (also called silver birch and lady birch); the dwarf birch (B. glandulosa); the paper or canoe birch (B. papyracea); the yellow birch (B. lutea); the black or cherry birch (B. lenta).