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A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes is deficient or in a morbid state. An albino has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of…

A person given to the use of alcoholic liquors.

A senior or superior; a person of rank or dignity. [Obs.]

made of aleurone, used as a substitute for ordinary flour in preparing bread for diabetic persons.

A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.

The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi.

everything included or concerned; the aggregate; the whole; totality; everything or every person; as, our all is at stake. Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all. Shak. All that thou seest is mine. Gen. xxxi. 43.

All four legs of a quadruped; or the two legs and two arms of a person. To be, go, or run, on all fours (Fig.), to be on the same footing; to correspond (with) exactly; to be alike in all the circumstances to be considered. "This example is on all fours with the other." "No simile can go on all fours." Macaulay.…

The persons or parties allied. Udall.

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

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

The allowance of a specific amount of scrip or of a particular thing to a particular person. Cottage allotment, an allotment of a small portion of land to a country laborer for garden cultivation. [Eng.]

Persons supported by alms; almsmen. [Archaic] Holinshed.

ite by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solitary; -- applied to a person or thing. Alone on a wide, wide sea. Coleridge. It is not good that the man should be alone. Gen. ii. 18.

An arrangement of lenses and mirrors which enables a person to see an object in spite of intervening objects.

The first person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mode, present tense. See Be. God said unto Moses, I am that am. Exod. iii. 14.

A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.

A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally.

A person who uses both hands with equal facility.

A horse or a person that ambles.