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To attach, unite, or connect with; as, names affixed to ideas, or ideas affixed to things; to affix a stigma to a person; to affix ridicule or blame to any one.

rnished by Oldfieldia Africana, used in ship building. African violet African-American, a United States citizen of African descent.

A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; -- distinguished from conglomerate.

Uniting, as glue; causing, or tending to cause, adhesion. -- n.

To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.

The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.

Pertaining to agglutination; tending to unite, or having power to cause adhesion; adhesive.

(Zoöl.) United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals.

o harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur; as, 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 enemi…

(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…

ly 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 the territory occupied by the northern Iroquoian tribes. There are nearly 100,000 Indians of the Algonquian tribes, of which the stro…

moma, and lithia, whose distinguishing peculiarities are solubility in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue. Fixed alkalies, potash and soda. -- Vegetable alkalies. Same as…

to or designating the humid division of the Transition zone extending across the northern United States from New England to eastern Dakota, and including also most of Pennsylvania and the mountainous region as far south as northern Georgia.

One of the pure unit characters commonly existing singly or in pairs in the germ cells of Mendelian hybrids, and exhibited in varying proportion among the organisms themselves. Allelomorphs which under certain circumstances are themselves compound are called hypallelomorphs. See Mendel's law. -- Al*le`lo*mor"phic (#),…

The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state; an alliance between France and England.…

United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally.

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

the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South America.

To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy; -- often followed by to or with. O chief! in blood, and now in arms allied. Pope.

A subsulphate of alumina and potash; alunite.