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To range or place in a line; to bring into line; to align. Evelyn.

See Allineation.

Same as Alignment.

One who adjusts things to a line or lines or brings them into line. Evelyn.

A crystalline substance, C9H13O3N, obtained from suprarenal extract, of which it is regarded as the active principle. It is used in medicine as a stimulant and hemostatic.

Of or pertaining to an alkali or to alkalies; having the properties of an alkali. Alkaline earths, certain substances, as lime, baryta, strontia, and magnesia, possessing some of the qualities of alkalies. -- Alkaline metals, potassium, sodium, cæsium, lithium, rubidium. -- Alkaline reaction, a reaction indicating al…

Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, almonds.

Anything that neutralizes, or that counteracts an alkaline tendency in the system. Hoopplw.

Of power to counteract alkalies.

Resembling a buffalo. Bubaline antelope (Zoöl.), the bubale.

A poisonous alkaloid extracted from corroval, and characterized by its immediate action in paralyzing the heart.

Resembling, or pertaining to, the Crotalidae, or Rattlesnake family.

ing the origin of a large class of derivatives hence, any one of the series of which glyoxaline is a type; -- called also oxaline.

An alkaloid found in the plant Peganum harmala. It forms bitter, yellow salts.

Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like crystal. "Hyaline spaces." Carpenter.

A bituminous substance obtained from the mercury mines of Idria, where it occurs mixed with cinnabar.

The quality or state of being mealy.

See Naphthalene.

Having the form of threads; fibrous.