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All. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

All; wholly; completely; as, almighty,almost. (b) Etym: [L. ad.]

Divination by means of barley meal. Knowles.

A winglike organ, or part.

A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic.

A compact variety or sulphate of lime, or gypsum, of fine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc.

Alabastrine.

Of, pertaining to, or like, alabaster; as alabastrine limbs.

A flower bud. Gray.

An exclamation expressive of sorrow. [Archaic. or Poet.] Shak.

An exclamation expressing sorrow.

To rouse to action; to inspirit.

Brisk; joyously active; lively. 'T were well if we were a little more alacrious. Hammond.

With alacrity; briskly.

Alacrity. [Obs.] Hammond.

or promptitude; joyous activity; briskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced with alacrity to meet the enemy. I have not that alacrity of spirit, Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have. Shak.

One of a sect of freethinkers among the Mohammedans.

Inability to utter articulate sounds, due either to paralysis of the larynx or to that form of aphasia, called motor, or ataxis, aphasia, due to loss of control of the muscles of speech.

The tunny. See Albicore.