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A festival in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk. "At wakes and ales." B. Jonson."On ember eves and holy ales." Shak.

A duty payable to the lord mayor of London by the sellers of ale within the city.

A pot companion. [Obs.]

In a leaking condition.

Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory contract. Bouvier.

A bench in or before an alehouse. Bunyan.

A beverage, formerly made by boiling ale with spice, sugar, and sops of bread. Their aleberries, caudles, possets. Beau. & Fl.

Applied to those ova which segment uniformly, and which have little or no food yelk embedded in their protoplasm. Balfour.

Orig., an officer appointed to look to the goodness of ale and beer; also, one of the officers chosen by the liverymen of London to inspect the measures used in public houses. But the office is a sinecure. [Also called aletaster.] [Eng.]

The plant costmary, which was formerly much used for flavoring ale.

A group of birds including the common fowl and the pheasants.

Cockfighting.

See Alectryomancy.

Cockfighting.

Divination by means of a cock and grains of corn placed on the letters of the alphabet, the letters being put together in the order in which the grains were eaten. Amer. Cyc.

the lee, or the side away from the wind; the opposite of aweather. The helm of a ship is alee when pressed close to the lee side. Hard alee, or Luff alee, an order to put the helm to the lee side.

Sour ale; vinegar made of ale. Cecil.

Gay; cheerful; sprightly. [Obs.] Bacon.

To allay or alleviate; to lighten. [Obs.] That shall alegge this bitter blast. Spenser.

Ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma).