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With one breve, or four minims, to measure, and sung faster like four crotchets; in quick common time; -- indicated in the time signature by

A crystalline, transparent, colorless substance found in the allantoic liquid of the fetal calf; -- formerly called allantoic acid and amniotic acid.

An allaying; that which allays; mitigation. [Obs.] The like allayment could I give my grief. Shak.

A kind of light armor used in the sixteenth century, esp. by the Swiss. Fairholt.

To alleviate; to lighten, as a burden or a trouble. [Obs.] Wyclif.

cal; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to allegorize it.

Brisk, lively. -- n.

vented by the French in the reign of Louis XIV.; -- now mostly found in suites of pieces, like those of Bach and Handel.

To lighten or lessen the force or weight of. [Obs.] Should no others join capable to alleviate the expense. Evelyn. Those large bladders . . . conduce much to the alleviating of the body [of flying birds]. Ray.

The act of alleviating; a lightening of weight or severity; mitigation; relief.

A large carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in Sout…

Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young.

more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: - Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness. Milton. Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. Tennyson.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as, alliterative poetry. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ly, adv. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ness, n.

Light, fuel, or food for the whole night. [Obs.] Bacon.

Any one of two or more distinct crystalline forms of the same substance; or the substance having such forms; -- as, carbonate of lime occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite.

he deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his life, approve his learning. Fuller.

License; indulgence. [Obs.] Locke.

cloves; and hence the name. The name is also given to other aromatic shrubs; as, the Carolina allspice (Calycanthus floridus); wild allspice (Lindera benzoin), called also spicebush, spicewood, and feverbush.

A match for lighting candles, lamps, etc.