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Below; in a lower part. "Aloft, and then alow." Dryden.

n. Specifically, in the plural, the highest chain of mountains in Europe, containing the lofty mountains of Switzerland, etc. Nor breath of vernal air from snowy alp. Milton. Hills peep o'er hills, and alps on alps arise. Pope.

A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton.

A learner of the alphabet; an abecedarian. Abp. Sancroft.

Of or pertaining to the Alps, or to any lofty mountain; as, Alpine snows; Alpine plants.

An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn. Grove.

An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn. Grove.

Lofty speech; pompous language. [R.] Bailey.

High-sounding; lofty or pompous. Skelton.

Lofty in doctrine, aims, etc. [R.] Coleridge.

ormation consisting of large whitish or grayish globular cloudlets with shaded portions, often grouped in flocks or rows.

containing iron pyrites, the decomposition of which leads to the formation of alum, which often effloresces on the rock.

to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often variegated like marble. The floating masses are sometimes from sixty to two hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212º Fahrenheit, and is highly valued in perfumery. Dana.…

follow an army in its movements, and intended to succor the wounded as soon as possible. Often used adjectively; as, an ambulance wagon; ambulance stretcher; ambulance corps.

Supplying amendment; corrective; emendatory. Bancroft.

Earth flax, or mountain flax; a soft silky variety of asbestus.

A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste: -- often called volatile alkali, and spirits of hartshorn.

An extensive group of fossil cephalopods often very abundant in Mesozoic rocks. See Ammonite.

In a soft, tender, amatory style.

rgely or copiously; to be diffuse in argument or description; to dilate; to expatiate; -- often with on or upon. Watts. He must often enlarge and amplify upon the subject he handles. South.