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An alarm from a real or threatened attack; a sudden attack; also, a bugle sound to give warning. "We have had an alert." Farrow. On the alert, on the lookout or watch against attack or danger; ready to act.

Totality; completeness. [R.] The allness of God, including his absolute spirituality, supremacy, and eternity. R. Turnbull.

(Now heard only in the prep. phrase along of.) Along of, Along on, often shortened to Long of, prep. phr., owing to; on account of. [Obs. or Low. Eng.] "On me is not along thin evil fare." Chaucer. "And all this is long of you." Shak. "This increase of price is all along of the foreigners." London Punch.…

Alternateness; alternation. [R.] Mitford.

To enamel. [Obs.] Enlightened all with stars, And richly ameled. Chapman.

The state or quality of being ample; largeness; fullness; completeness.

er by laying down a small anchor ahead of that by which the ship rides, with the cable fastened to the crown of the latter to prevent its coming home. -- To cast anchor, to drop or let go an anchor to keep a ship at rest. -- To cat the anchor, to hoist the anchor to the cathead and pass the ring-stopper. -- To fish…

Two-edged instead of round; -- said of certain flattened stems, as those of blue grass, and rarely also of leaves.

, contrary, or in place of; -- used in composition in many English words. It is often shortened to ant-; as, antacid, antarctic.

The tenets or practice of Antinomians. South.

A building comprising a number of suites designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house.

Shortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the beginning of a word; as, an aphetic word or form. -- A*phet"ic*al*ly, adv. New Eng. Dict.

Shortened by apocope; as, an apocopate form.

Any literary matter added to a book, but not necessarily essential to its completeness, and thus distinguished from supplement, which is intended to supply deficiencies and correct inaccuracies.

Fitness; suitableness; appropriateness; as, the aptness of things to their end. The aptness of his quotations. J. R. Green.

Antiquity of style or use; obsoleteness. A select vocabulary corresponding (in point of archaism and remoteness from ordinary use) to our Scriptural vocabulary. De Quincey.

Whiteness; anything that is white. The polished argent of her breast. Tennyson.

To admit or accept the tenets of the Arians; to become an Arian.

One who holds the tenets of Arminius, a Dutch divine (b. 1560, d. 1609).