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An exclamation expressing sorrow.

To rouse to action; to inspirit.

Brisk; joyously active; lively. 'T were well if we were a little more alacrious. Hammond.

With alacrity; briskly.

Alacrity. [Obs.] Hammond.

r promptitude; joyous activity; briskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced with alacrity to meet the enemy. I have not that alacrity of spirit, Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have. Shak.

See under Lace.

Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms.

Having the form of ambulacra.

One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.

Like a bottle or inflated bladder; bottle-shaped; swelling. Kirby. Ampullaceous sac (Zoöl.), one of the peculiar cavities in the tissues of sponges, containing the zooidal cells.

Akin to, or derived from, the almond.

Pertaining to starch; of the nature of starch; starchy.

Same as Anlace.

A broad dagger formerly worn at the girdle. [Written also anelace.]

Away from the ambulacral region.

See Appalachian.

Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.

Mammals which have no placenta.

A division of Amphineura in which the body is naked or covered with slender spines or setæ, but is without shelly plates.