Alfenide (n.) An alloy of nickel and silver electroplated with silver.
Alferes (n.) An ensign; a standard bearer.
Alfet (n.) A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.
Alfilaria (n.) The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California.
Alfione (n.) An edible marine fish of California (Rhacochilus toxotes).
Alfresco (adv. & a.) In the open-air.
Algae (pl. ) of Alga
Alga (n.) A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervae, etc.
Algal (a.) Pertaining to, or like, algae.
Algaroba (n.) The Carob, a leguminous tree of the Mediterranean region; also, its edible beans or pods, called St. John's bread.
Algaroba (n.) The Honey mesquite (Prosopis juliflora), a small tree found from California to Buenos Ayres; also, its sweet, pulpy pods. A valuable gum, resembling gum arabic, is collected from the tree in Texas and Mexico.
Algarot (n.) Alt. of Algaroth
Algaroth (n.) A term used for the Powder of Algaroth, a white powder which is a compound of trichloride and trioxide of antimony. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic, purgative, and diaphoretic.
Algarovilla (n.) The agglutinated seeds and husks of the legumes of a South American tree (Inga Marthae). It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye.
Algate (adv.) Alt. of Algates
Algates (adv.) Always; wholly; everywhere.
Algates (adv.) By any or means; at all events.
Algates (adv.) Notwithstanding; yet.
Algazel (n.) The true gazelle.
Algebra (n.) That branch of mathematics which treats of the relations and properties of quantity by means of letters and other symbols. It is applicable to those relations that are true of every kind of magnitude.
Algebra (n.) A treatise on this science.
Algebraic (a.) Alt. of Algebraical
Algebraical (a.) Of or pertaining to algebra; containing an operation of algebra, or deduced from such operation; as, algebraic characters; algebraical writings.
Algebraically (adv.) By algebraic process.
Algebraist (n.) One versed in algebra.
Algebraize (v. t.) To perform by algebra; to reduce to algebraic form.
Algerian (a.) Of or pertaining to Algeria.
Algerian (n.) A native of Algeria.
Algerine (a.) Of or pertaining to Algiers or Algeria.
Algerine (n.) A native or one of the people of Algiers or Algeria. Also, a pirate.
Algid (a.) Cold; chilly.
Algidity (n.) Chilliness; coldness
Algidity (n.) coldness and collapse.
Algidness (n.) Algidity.
Algific (a.) Producing cold.
Algoid (a.) Of the nature of, or resembling, an alga.
Algol (n.) A fixed star, in Medusa's head, in the constellation Perseus, remarkable for its periodic variation in brightness.
Algological (a.) Of or pertaining to algology; as, algological specimens.
Algologist (n.) One learned about algae; a student of algology.
Algology (n.) The study or science of algae or seaweeds.
Algonquin (n.) Alt. of Algonkin
Algonkin (n.) One of a widely spread family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence.
Algor (n.) Cold; chilliness.
Algorism (n.) Alt. of Algorithm
Algorithm (n.) The art of calculating by nine figures and zero.
Algorithm (n.) The art of calculating with any species of notation; as, the algorithms of fractions, proportions, surds, etc.
Algous (a.) Of or pertaining to the algae, or seaweeds; abounding with, or like, seaweed.
Alguazil (n.) An inferior officer of justice in Spain; a warrant officer; a constable.
Algum (n.) Same as Almug (and etymologically preferable).
Alhambra (n.) The palace of the Moorish kings at Granada.
Alhambraic (a.) Alt. of Alhambresque
Alhambresque (a.) Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture.
Alhenna (n.) See Henna.
Alias (adv.) Otherwise; otherwise called; -- a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson.
Alias (adv.) At another time.
Aliases (pl. ) of Alias
Alias (n.) A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.
Alias (n.) Another name; an assumed name.
Alibi (n.) The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi.
Alibility (n.) Quality of being alible.
Alible (a.) Nutritive; nourishing.
Alicant (n.) A kind of wine, formerly much esteemed; -- said to have been made near Alicant, in Spain.
Alidade (n.) The portion of a graduated instrument, as a quadrant or astrolabe, carrying the sights or telescope, and showing the degrees cut off on the arc of the instrument
Alien (a.) Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.
Alien (a.) Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion.
Alien (n.) A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not possess the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage.
Alien (n.) One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies.
Alien (v. t.) To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership.
Alienability (n.) Capability of being alienated.
Alienable (a.) Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another; as, land is alienable according to the laws of the state.
Alienage (n.) The state or legal condition of being an alien.
Alienage (n.) The state of being alienated or transferred to another.
Alienate (a.) Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from.
Alienated (imp. & p. p.) of Alienate
Alienating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Alienate
Alienate (v. t.) To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
Alienate (v. t.) To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from.
Alienate (n.) A stranger; an alien.
Alienation (n.) The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated.
Alienation (n.) A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another.
Alienation (n.) A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections.
Alienation (n.) Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity; as, alienation of mind.
Alienator (n.) One who alienates.
Aliene (v. t.) To alien or alienate; to transfer, as title or property; as, to aliene an estate.
Alienee (n.) One to whom the title of property is transferred; -- opposed to alienor.
Alienism (n.) The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage.
Alienism (n.) The study or treatment of diseases of the mind.
Alienist (n.) One who treats diseases of the mind.
Alienor (n.) One who alienates or transfers property to another.
Aliethmoid (a.) Alt. of Aliethmoidal
Aliethmoidal (a.) Pertaining to expansions of the ethmoid bone or cartilage.
Alife (adv.) On my life; dearly.
Aliferous (a.) Having wings, winged; aligerous.
Aliform (a.) Wing-shaped; winglike.
Aligerous (a.) Having wings; winged.
Alighted (imp. & p. p.) of Alight
Alit () of Alight
Alighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Alight
Alight (v. i.) To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount.
Alight (v. i.) To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof.