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its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.

The absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. It is one form of aphasia.

Intention; purpose; design; scheme. How oft ambitious aims are crossed! Pope.

blic notice; to display ostentatiously; as, to air one's opinion. Airing a snowy hand and signet gem. Tennyson.

A direction for the performer to return and recommence from the sign

nitius, and his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been applied to certain elegant editions of English works.

A pole set up as the sign of an alehouse. [Obs.]

A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a "bush." [Obs.] Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to a chain of islands between Alaska and Kamtchatka; also, designating these islands.

An ensign; a standard bearer. [Obs.] J. Fletcher.

(Geol.) Pertaining to or designating a period or era recognized by the United States Geological Survey and some other authorities, between the Archæan and the Paleozoic, from both of which it is generally separated in the record by unconformities. Algonkian rocks are both sedimentary and igneous. Although fossils are…

Pertaining to or designating the most extensive of the linguistic families of North American Indians, their territory formerly including practically all of Canada east of the 115th meridian and south of Hudson's Bay and the part of the United States east of the Mississippi and north of Tennessee and Virginia, with the…

sure, and sung faster like four crotchets; in quick common time; -- indicated in the time signature by

Pertaining to or designating the humid division of the Transition zone extending across the northern United States from New England to eastern Dakota, and including also most of Pennsylvania and the mountainous region as far south as northern Georgia.

[From the Allegheny River, Pennsylvania.] (Geol.) Pertaining to or designating a subdivision of the Pennsylvanian coal measure.

An exclamation signifying Praise ye Jehovah. Hence: A song of praise to God. See Hallelujah, the commoner form. I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia. Rev. xix. 1.

To distribute or assign; to allot. Burke.

A writing or signature made by some person other than any of the parties thereto; -- opposed to autograph.

from those produced by the special disease treated; -- a term invented by Hahnemann to designate the ordinary practice, as opposed to homeopathy.

, or parcel out in parts or portions; or to distribute to each individual concerned; to assign as a share or lot; to set apart as one's share; to bestow on; to grant; to appoint; as, let every man be contented with that which Providence allots him. Ten years I will allot to the attainment of knowledge. Johnson.…