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turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly. The most high God, in all things appertaining unto this life, for sundry wise ends alternates the disposition of good and evil. Grew.

High-sounding; pompous in speech. [R.] Bailey.

High-sounding; lofty or pompous. Skelton.

Height of degree; highest point or degree. He is [proud] even to the altitude of his virtue. Shak.

Flying high. [Obs.] Blount.

Formerly the part sung by the highest male, or counter-tenor, voices; now the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, between in tenor and soprano. In instrumental music it now signifies the tenor.

High relief; sculptured work in which the figures project more than half their thickness; as, this figure is an alto-rilievo or in alto-rilievo.

A minister of the highest rank sent a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country.

ve pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212º Fahrenheit, and is highly valued in perfumery. Dana.

from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare. Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege Or ambush from the deep. Milton.

itosis. It is not the usual mode of division, and is believed by many to occur chiefly in highly specialized cells which are incapable of long-continued multiplication, in transitory structures, and in those in early stages of degeneration.

ve; enamored; -- usually with of; formerly with on. Thy roses amorous of the moon. Keats. High nature amorous of the good. Tennyson. Sure my brother is amorous on Hero. Shak.

Elevated, -- as a toe, when raised so high that the tip does not touch the ground.

ke. Anathema Maranatha Etym: (see 1 Cor. xvi. 22), an expression commonly considered as a highly intensified form of anathema. Maran atha is now considered as a separate sentence, meaning, "Our Lord cometh."

he wood of some trees in which the rings are separated, as some suppose, by the action of high winds upon the trunk; wind shake.

Pertaining to, characteristic of, or held by, the high church party of the Church of England.

the established church of England; also, in a restricted sense, the doctrines held by the high-church party.

deled on the English Reformation; Anglican; -- sometimes restricted to the ritualistic or High Church section of the Church of England.

ra goat (Zoöl.), a variety of the domestic goat, reared for its long silky hair, which is highly prized for manufacture.

or incite; to inspirit; to rouse; to enliven. The more to animate the people, he stood on high . . . and cried unto them with a loud voice. Knolles.