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A winglike organ, or part.

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

mpact variety of carbonate of lime, somewhat translucent, or of banded shades of color; stalagmite. The name is used in this sense by Pliny. It is sometimes distinguished as oriental alabaster.

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.

The lowest note but one in Guido Aretino's scale of music.

The quality of being à la mode; conformity to the mode or fashion; fashionableness. [R.] Southey.

According to the fashion or prevailing mode. "Alamode beef shops." Macaulay.

To the death; mortally.