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A wolfhound. [Obs.] Chaucer.

On land; to the land; ashore. "Cast aland." Sir P. Sidney.

A white crystalline base, C3H7NO2, derived from aldehyde ammonia.

See Inulin.

Same as Acephal.

An appellant. [Obs.] Shak.

A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice.

Act of weighing mentally; comparison; estimate. A fair balance of the advantages on either side. Atterbury.

f a watch or chronometer, answering to the pendulum of a clock; -- often called simply a balance.

Such as can be balanced.

The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. [R.] Darwin.

One who balances, or uses a balance.

The last reef in a fore-and-aft sail, taken to steady the ship.

Bearing or producing acorns.

A fossil balanoid shell.

A peculiar marine worm. See Enteropneusta, and Tornaria.

Resembling an acorn; -- applied to a group of barnacles having shells shaped like acorns. See Acornshell, and Barnacle.

(Mus.) Gradually diminishing in rapidity and loudness.

A native or inbabitant of Catalonia; also, the language of Catalonia. Catalan furnace, Catalan forge (Metal.), a kind of furnace for producing wrought iron directly from the ore. It was formerly much used, esp. in Catalonia, and is still used in some parts of the United States and elsewhere.

A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jandice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort. Lasser celandine, the pilewort (Ranunculus Ficaria).…