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

The worship of strange gods. Jer. Taylor.

set apart for a special use or to a distinct party. The alloments of God and nature. L'Estrange. A vineyard and an allotment for olives and herbs. Broome.

Alman rivets, a sort of light armor from Germany, characterized by overlapping plates, arranged to slide on rivets, and thus afford great flexibility.

The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.

e order of, the letters of the alphabet; as, alphabetic characters, writing, languages, arrangement.

To arrange alphabetically; as, to alphabetize a list of words.

hange made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition. Ere long might perceive Strange alteration in me. Milton. Appius Claudius admitted to the senate the sons of those who had been slaves; by which, and succeeding alterations, that council degenerated into a most corrupt. Swift.

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.

Characterized by wrangling; scolding. [R.] Fielding.

An arrangement of lenses and mirrors which enables a person to see an object in spite of intervening objects.

ticing or siding with both parties. All false, shuffling, and ambidextrous dealings. L'Estrange.

A disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly 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.

Bearing aments; having flowers arranged in aments; as, amentaceous plants.

, friendliness; after the manner of friends; peaceable; as, an amicable disposition, or arrangement. That which was most remarkable in this contest was . . . the amicable manner in which it was managed. Prideoux. Amicable action (Law.), an action commenced and prosecuted by amicable consent of the parties, for the purp…

A division of Mollusca remarkable for the bilateral symmetry of the organs and the arrangement of the nerves.

The horizontal line which measures the distance to which a projectile is thrown; the range.

e (Nat. Hist.), a table in which the characteristics of the species or other groups are arranged so as to facilitate the determination of their names.

Any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contrivance to hold the end of a bridge cable, or other similar part; a contrivance used by founders to hold the core of a mold in place.