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The Mohammedan Scriptures; the Koran (now the usual form). [Spelt also Alcoran.]

Of or pertaining to the Koran.

One who adheres to the letter of the Koran, rejecting all traditions.

rus; the Bull's Eye. It is the bright star in the group called the Hyades. Now when Aldebaran was mounted high Above the shiny Cassiopeia's chair. Spenser.

The Mohammedan Scriptures. Same as Alcoran and Koran.

Same as Alcoranic.

Same as Alcoranist.

Allurement. [R.]

Altering; gradually changing. Bacon.

Amaranth, 1. [Obs.] Milton.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the amaranth is the type.

A genus of ornamental annual plants (Amaranthus) of many species, with green, purplish, or crimson flowers.

Of or pertaining to amaranth. "Amaranthine bowers." Pope.

Same as Amaranth.

A branch of a river that reënters, or anastomoses with, the main stream; also, less properly, a branch which loses itself in sandy soil. [Australia]

The dissection of a human body, especially of a male; androtomy. Coxe.

cter of the tail or abdomen; as, the anomural crustaceans. [Written also anomoural, anomouran.]

One of the Anomura.

Preceding dinner.

A division of nudibranchiate Mollusca, in which the gills form a wreath or cluster upon the posterior part of the back. See Nudibranchiata, and Doris.