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Changing color.

The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words.

See Allodium.

Pertaining to allodium; freehold; free of rent or service; held independent of a lord paramount; -- opposed to feudal; as, allodial lands; allodial system. Blackstone.

The allodial system.

One who holds allodial land.

By allodial tenure.

One who holds an allodium.

Freehold estate; land which is the absolute property of the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud. Blackstone. Bouvier.

Characterized by allogamy.

Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species; cross-fertilization.

Different in nature or kind. [R.]

A writing or signature made by some person other than any of the parties thereto; -- opposed to autograph.

Variability in chemical constitution without variation in crystalline form.

Characterized by allomerism.

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.

Of or pertaining to allomorphism.

The property which constitutes an allomorph; the change involved in becoming an allomorph.

A thrust or pass; a lunge.

The name of another person assumed by the author of a work.