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ng their attention; an alarum. Alarm bell, a bell that gives notice on danger. -- Alarm clock or watch, a clock or watch which can be so set as to ring or strike loudly at a prearranged hour, to wake from sleep, or excite attention. -- Alarm gauge, a contrivance attached to a steam boiler for showing when the pressur…

Even; just. (Often a mere intensive adjunct.) [Obs. or Poet.] All as his straying flock he fed. Spenser. A damsel lay deploring All on a rock reclined. Gay. All to, or All-to. In such phrases as "all to rent," "all to break," "all-to frozen," etc., which are of frequent occurrence in our old authors, the all and the to…

License; indulgence. [Obs.] Locke.

ver is silver without the mixture of any baser metal. Alloy is baser metal mixed with it. Locke.

g of large whitish or grayish globular cloudlets with shaded portions, often grouped in flocks or rows.

An unguent of the gods. His dewy locks distilled ambrosia. Milton.

In churches, a kind of closet, niche, cupboard, or locker for utensils, vestments, etc.

interest or humor, we will create an amphiboly, a double meaning where there is none. Whitlock.

To rebaptize; to rechristen; also, to rename. [R.] Whitlock.

ays he could wish, to save them from it, to become an anathema, and be destroyed himself. Locke. 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."…

Animal existence or nature. Locke.

ive preconception. Many men give themselves up to the first anticipations of their minds. Locke.

An iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped.

With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily. His dewy locks did drop with brine apace. Spenser. A visible triumph of the gospel drawapace. I. Taylor.

g, that is of doubtful authorship or authority; -- formerly used also adjectively. [Obs.] Locke.

en, there will not be much need of the application of the common rewards and punishments. Locke.

tillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas. Locke.

proofs; argumentation; discussion; disputation. The argument is about things, but names. Locke.

en paid; arrearage; -- commonly used in the plural, as, arrears of rent, wages, or taxes. Locke. For much I dread due payment by the Greeks Of yesterday's arrear. Cowper. I have a large arrear of letters to write. J. D. Forbes. In arrear or In arrears, behind; backward; behindhand; in debt.

lleging that the first oblations of men not only of the fruit of the earth, but of their flocks. [Gen. iv. 3, 4.]