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Of, pertaining to, or designating, a certain acid composed of tartaric acid in combination with ethyl, and now called ethyltartaric acid.

A hypocritical devotee. See the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

Like a tartuffe; precise; hypocritical. Sterne.

A name given to several resinous-glandular composite plants of California, esp. to the species of Grindelia, Hemizonia, and Madia.

Used in salads; as, acetarious plants.

An acid pulp in certain fruits, as the pear. Grew.

The instep or front of the tarsus.

The quality of being alimentary; nourishing quality. [R.]

ing to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances. Alimentary canal, the entire channel, extending from the mouth to the anus, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the useless parts ejected.

Same as Almucantar.

mall circle of the sphere parallel to the horizon; a circle or parallel of altitude. Two stars which have the same almucantar have the same altitude. See Almacantar. [Archaic] Almucanter staff, an ancient instrument, having an arc of fifteen degrees, formerly used at sea to take observations of the sun's amplitude at t…

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

or wood) on which sacrifices are offered or incense burned to a deity. Noah builded an altar unto the Lord. Gen. viii. 20.

The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church.

A chaplain.

The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.

In the proper position of an altar, that is, at the east of a church with its ends towards the north and south. Shipley.

Opposition to government in general. [R.]

One who opposes all government. [R.]

Opposed to all human government. [R.]