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To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof.

To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line; to aline.

The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also, the line of adjustment; esp., an imaginary line to regulate the formation of troops or of a squadron.

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

The act of tying together or attaching by some bond, or the state of being attached. [R.]

Any machine with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator; as, (a) (Metal Working)

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

See Alignment.

ules of the road require vessels at anchor to carry from sunset to sunrise a single white light forward if under 150 feet in length, and if longer, two such lights, one near the stern and one forward.

The light of an arc lamp.

A member of the conservative party in the Church of Scotland in the latter part of the 18th century.

To illuminate. [Obs.] Cowley.

The quality of being belligerent; act or state of making war; warfare.

Waging war; carrying on war. "Belligerent powers." E. Everett.

In a belligerent manner; hostilely.

Having the anterior toes connected by a basal web.

To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of. [This vapor] blasts vegetables, blights corn and fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man. Woodward.

Causing blight.

So as to cause blight.

A light in which high illuminating power is obtained by introducing a jet of oxygen gas or of common air into the center of a flame fed with coal gas or with oil.