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Of or belonging to the summer; as, æstival diseases. [Spelt also estival.]

A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.

aged. They live one hundred and thirty years, and never age for all that. Holland. I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-colored, hair here and there. Landor.

Belonging to old age. "Aged cramps." Shak.

Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aërial; as, an airy flight. "The airy region." Milton.

An ornamental evergreen shrub (Rhamnus alaternus) belonging to the buckthorns.

A tree, usually growing in moist land, and belonging to the genus Alnus. The wood is used by turners, etc.; the bark by dyers and tanners. In the U. S. the species of alder are usually shrubs or small trees. Black alder. (a) A European shrub (Rhamnus frangula); Alder buckthorn. (b) An American species of holly (Ilex ve…

Belonging to the Alemanni, a confederacy of warlike German tribes.

Belonging to Alexandria; Alexandrian. Bancroft.

Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.

alizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue. Fixed alkalies, potash and soda. -- Vegetable alkalies. Same as Alkaloids. -- Volatile alkali, ammonia, so called in distinction from the fixed alkalies.

The act of alleging or positively asserting.

To produce or urge as a reason, plea, or excuse; as, he refused to lend, alleging a resolution against lending.

Belonging to, or consisting of, allegory; of the nature of an allegory; describing by resemblances; figurative. "An allegoric tale." Falconer. "An allegorical application." Pope. Allegorical being . . . that kind of language which says one thing, but means another. Max Miller. Al`le*gor"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Al`le*gor"ic*…

Changing color.

In the top; at the mast head, or on the higher yards or rigging; overhead; hence (Fig. and Colloq.), in or to heaven.

Altering; gradually changing. Bacon.

Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health. Burton.

A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.

ates. Specifically: A machine for separating precious metals from earthy particles by bringing them in contact with a body of mercury with which they form an amalgam.