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, all parties agree in the expediency of the law. If music and sweet poetry agree. Shak. Their witness agreed not together. Mark xiv. 56. The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you. Sir T. Browne.

A mechanical contrivance for awaking persons from sleep, or rousing their attention; an alarum. Alarm bell, a bell that gives notice on danger. -- Alarm clock or watch, a clock or watch which can be so set as to ring or strike loudly at a prearranged hour, to wake from sleep, or excite attention. -- Alarm gauge, a co…

ly church those who had been baptized on Easter eve laid aside on the following Saturday their white albs which had been put on after baptism.

Although; albeit. [Obs.] Albe Clarissa were their chiefest founderess. Spenser.

sed mainly of brass, formerly used for various utensils; hence, a trumpet. [Obs.] Put to their mouths the sounding alchemy. Milton.

A beverage, formerly made by boiling ale with spice, sugar, and sops of bread. Their aleberries, caudles, possets. Beau. & Fl.

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

An instrument for viewing pictures by means of a lens, so as to present them in their natural proportions and relations.

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 exception of…

Having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.

t which is alleged, asserted, or declared; positive assertion; formal averment I thought their allegation but reasonable. Steele.

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

The property of existing in two or more conditions which are distinct in their physical or chemical relations.

a] spread over a far wider space: they are found not only on the banks of rivers, and in their beds, but are scattered over the surface of vast plains. R. Cobden.

gue; -- usually applied to sovereigns or states; a confederate. The English soldiers and their French allies. Macaulay.

An Egyptian dancing girl; an Alma. The Almehs lift their arms in dance. Bayard Taylor.

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

A lead ore found in Cornwall, England, and used by potters to give a green glaze to their wares; potter's ore.

High relief; sculptured work in which the figures project more than half their thickness; as, this figure is an alto-rilievo or in alto-rilievo.

oung are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care of their parents for some time; -- opposed to præcoces.