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Of or pertaining to the Alps, or to any lofty mountain; as, Alpine snows; Alpine plants.

e Alps with reference to Rome, that is, on the south side of the Alps; -- opposed to transalpine.

Inhabiting the somewhat high slopes and summits of mountains, but considerably below the snow line.

side of the Alps; of or pertaining to the region or the people beyond the Alps; as, transalpine Gaul; -- opposed to cisalpine. " Transalpine garbs." Beau. & Fl.

Growing in Alpine regions.

Deut. xxxii. 43. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold. Milton. He had avenged himself on them by havoc such as England had never before seen. Macaulay.

Cornish chough, red-legged crow. The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the Alpine chough. Cornish chough (Her.), a bird represented black, with red feet, and beak; -- called also aylet and sea swallow.

zed form of Gallia, which in the time of the Romans included France and Upper Italy (Transalpine and Cisalpine Gaul).

as one's home or the place from whence one comes; to come; -- with from. [Colloq.] G. G. Halpine.

ope, variously dated at from 1000 to 1500 b. c. and usually associated with the Celtic or Alpine race. It was characterized by expert use of bronze, a knowledge of iron, possession of domestic animals, agriculture, and artistic skill and sentiment in manufacturing pottery, ornaments, etc.

That which is elevated; an eminence; a hill or mountain; as, Alpine heights. Dryden.

nt inhabitant of the Alps, now Switzerland, or to the modern states and inhabitant of the Alpine regions; as, the Helvetic confederacy; Helvetic states.

A succulent plant of the genus Sempervivum (S. tectorum), originally a native of subalpine Europe, but now found very generally on old walls and roofs. It is very tenacious of life under drought and heat; -- called also ayegreen.

, but very irregular, melodies of the Swiss mountaineers, blown on a long tube called the Alpine horn, and sometimes sung.

A small river which separated Italy from Cisalpine Gaul, the province alloted to Julius Cæsar.

A plant of the genus Soldanella, low Alpine herbs of the Primrose family.

A prefix, signifying over, beyond, through and through, on the other side, as in transalpine, beyond the Alps; transform, to form through and through, that is, anew, transfigure.

n; the zone of animal or vegetable life in the ocean around an island or a continent; the Alpine zone, that part of mountains which is above the limit of tree growth.