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ptized on Easter eve laid aside on the following Saturday their white albs which had been put on after baptism.

al composed mainly of brass, formerly used for various utensils; hence, a trumpet. [Obs.] Put to their mouths the sounding alchemy. Milton.

Saturation with alcohol; putting the animal system under the influence of alcoholic liquor.

ans of a cock and grains of corn placed on the letters of the alphabet, the letters being put together in the order in which the grains were eaten. Amer. Cyc.

f a ship is alee when pressed close to the lee side. Hard alee, or Luff alee, an order to put the helm to the lee side.

To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions.

The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement. Hallam.

To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were allowanced.

The contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle.

Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest. "Stormy altercations." Macaulay.

Hence; A double-dealer; one equally ready to act on either side in party disputes. The rest are hypocrites, ambidexters, so many turning pictures -- a lion on one side, a lamb on the other. Burton.

k and receive not, because ye ask amiss. James iv. 3. To take (an act, thing) amiss, to impute a wrong motive to (an act or thing); to take offense at' to take unkindly; as, you must not take these questions amiss.

Removal; a putting away. [Obs.] Bp. Ward (1673).

Deputies from the confederated states of ancient Greece to a congress or council. They considered both political and religious matters.

A microörganism (Bacillus amylobacter) which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction. Sternberg.

To refer to, or put into, a wrong time. [R.] Lowell.

Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins.

To put before; to prefer. [Obs.] Bailey.

ond Epistle of Peter, the second and third Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Homologoumena.

or pertaining to the city of Antioch, in Syria. Antiochian epoch (Chron.), a method of computing time, from the proclamation of liberty granted to the city of Antioch, about the time of the battle of Pharsalia, B.C. 48.