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The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of the ship, to attend the after-sails. Totten.

(Zoöl.) United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals.

rson who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant. The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned to the tameness of the sufferer. Ames.

Wild; -- said of plants growing in the fields.

Willing; ready to agree or consent. [Colloq.] These Frenchmen give unto the said captain of Calais a great sum of money, so that he will be but content and agreeable that they may enter into the said town. Latimer.

With the sails furled, and the helm lashed alee; -- applied to ships in a storm. See Hull, n.

An artificial or affected manner; show of pride or vanity; haughtiness; as, it is said of a person, he puts on airs. Thackeray.

The imaginary milk-white animal on which Mohammed was said to have been carried up to heaven; a white mule.

A kind of wine, formerly much esteemed; -- said to have been made near Alicant, in Spain. J. Fletcher.

le; 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.

a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to allegorize it.

All the saints (in heaven). [Obs.]

The feast of All Saints.

The time at or near All Saints, or November 1st.

Only; merely; singly. [Obs.] This said spirit was not given alonely unto him, but unto all his heirs and posterity. Latimer.

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.

To lower, as a sail, a yard, etc.

sh greatly. "Amazing Europe with her wit." Goldsmith. And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David Matt. xii. 23.

Of or pertaining to ambrein; -- said of a certain acid produced by digesting ambrein in nitric acid.

t; thus, a conductor having five convolutions and carrying a current of half an ampère is said to have 2½ ampère turns. The magnetizing effect of a coil is proportional to the number of its ampère turns.