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e highest male, or counter-tenor, voices; now the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, between in tenor and soprano. In instrumental music it now signifies the tenor.

A fleecy cloud formation consisting of large whitish or grayish globular cloudlets with shaded portions, often grouped in flocks or rows.

Alto-rilievo.

d work in which the figures project more than half their thickness; as, this figure is an alto-rilievo or in alto-rilievo.

A cloud formation similar to cirro-stratus, but heavier and at a lower level.

All together; conjointly. [Obs.] Altogether they wenChaucer.

A theodolite. Knight.

Formed like basalt; basaltiform.

ng, cobalt; -- said esp. of cobalt compounds in which the metal has its lower valence. Cobaltous chloride, a crystalline compound, CoCl2, of a pale rose color when hydrous, blue when dehydrated. Its solution is used for a sympathetic ink, the writing being nearly colorless when dried in the air, owing to absorbed moist…

The part sung by the highest male or lowest female voices; the alto or counter tenor.

One afflicted with color blindness.

esp. red; color blindness. It has various forms and degrees. So called from the chemist Dalton, who had this infirmity. Nichol.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, maltose; specif., designating an acid called also gluconic or dextronic acid. See Gluconic.

A crystalline sugar formed from starch by the action of distance of malt, and the amylolytic ferment of saliva and pancreatic juice. It resembles dextrose, but rotates the plane of polarized light further to the right and possesses a lower cupric oxide reducing power.

Any of several large groupers of warm seas, esp. the guasa (Epinephelus guaza), the red grouper (E. morio), the black grouper (E. nigritas), distinguished as Me"ro de lo al"to, and a species called also rock hind, distinguished as Me"ro ca*brol"la.

A kind of doublet; a jacket. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Color blindness; inability to distinguish colors; Daltonism.

Wholly; completely; altogether; entirely; quite; very; as, all bedewed; my friend is all for amusement. "And cheeks all pale." Byron.

Altogether. [Obs.] Shak.

The higher part of the scale. See Alto. To be in alt, to be in an exalted state of mind.