Alight (v. i.) To come or chance (upon).
Alight (a.) Lighted; lighted up; in a flame.
Align (v. t.) To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line; to aline.
Align (v. t.) To form in line; to fall into line.
Alignment (n.) The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also, the line of adjustment; esp., an imaginary line to regulate the formation of troops or of a squadron.
Alignment (n.) The ground-plan of a railway or other road, in distinction from the grades or profile.
Alike (a.) Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.
Alike (adv.) In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally; as, we are all alike concerned in religion.
Alike-minded (a.) Like-minded.
Aliment (n.) That which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: sustenance; means of support.
Aliment (n.) An allowance for maintenance.
Aliment (v. t.) To nourish; to support.
Aliment (v. t.) To provide for the maintenance of.
Alimental (a.) Supplying food; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap.
Alimentally (adv.) So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality.
Alimentariness (n.) The quality of being alimentary; nourishing quality.
Alimentary (a.) Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances.
Alimentation (n.) The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.
Alimentation (n.) State or mode of being nourished.
Alimentiveness (n.) The instinct or faculty of appetite for food.
Alimonious (a.) Affording food; nourishing.
Alimony (n.) Maintenance; means of living.
Alimony (n.) An allowance made to a wife out of her husband's estate or income for her support, upon her divorce or legal separation from him, or during a suit for the same.
Alinasal (a.) Pertaining to expansions of the nasal bone or cartilage.
Aline (v. t.) To range or place in a line; to bring into line; to align.
Alineation (n.) See Allineation.
Alinement (n.) Same as Alignment.
Aliner (n.) One who adjusts things to a line or lines or brings them into line.
Alioth (n.) A star in the tail of the Great Bear, the one next the bowl in the Dipper.
Aliped (a.) Wing-footed, as the bat.
Aliped (n.) An animal whose toes are connected by a membrane, serving for a wing, as the bat.
Aliquant (a.) An aliquant part of a number or quantity is one which does not divide it without leaving a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquant part of 16. Opposed to aliquot.
Aliquot (a.) An aliquot part of a number or quantity is one which will divide it without a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquot part of 15. Opposed to aliquant.
Aliseptal (a.) Relating to expansions of the nasal septum.
Alish (a.) Like ale; as, an alish taste.
Alisphenoid (a.) Alt. of Alisphenoidal
Alisphenoidal (a.) Pertaining to or forming the wing of the sphenoid; relating to a bone in the base of the skull, which in the adult is often consolidated with the sphenoid; as, alisphenoid bone; alisphenoid canal.
Alisphenoid (n.) The alisphenoid bone.
Alitrunk (n.) The segment of the body of an insect to which the wings are attached; the thorax.
Aliturgical (a.) Applied to those days when the holy sacrifice is not offered.
Aliunde (adv. & a.) From another source; from elsewhere; as, a case proved aliunde; evidence aliunde.
Alive (a.) Having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.
Alive (a.) In a state of action; in force or operation; unextinguished; unexpired; existent; as, to keep the fire alive; to keep the affections alive.
Alive (a.) Exhibiting the activity and motion of many living beings; swarming; thronged.
Alive (a.) Sprightly; lively; brisk.
Alive (a.) Having susceptibility; easily impressed; having lively feelings, as opposed to apathy; sensitive.
Alive (a.) Of all living (by way of emphasis).
Alizari (n.) The madder of the Levant.
Alizarin (n.) A coloring principle, C14H6O2(OH)2, found in madder, and now produced artificially from anthracene. It produces the Turkish reds.
Alkahest (n.) The fabled "universal solvent" of the alchemists; a menstruum capable of dissolving all bodies.
Alkalamide (n.) One of a series of compounds that may be regarded as ammonia in which a part of the hydrogen has been replaced by basic, and another part by acid, atoms or radicals.
Alkalescence (n.) Alt. of Alkalescency
Alkalescency (n.) A tendency to become alkaline; or the state of a substance in which alkaline properties begin to be developed, or to predominant.
Alkalescent (a.) Tending to the properties of an alkali; slightly alkaline.
Alkalis (pl. ) of Alkali
Alkalies (pl. ) of Alkali
Alkali (n.) Soda ash; caustic soda, caustic potash, etc.
Alkali (n.) One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, potash, ammonia, and lithia, whose distinguishing peculiarities are solubility in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue.
Alkalifiable (a.) Capable of being alkalified, or converted into an alkali.
Alkalified (imp. & p. p.) of Alkalify
Alkalifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Alkalify
Alkalify (v. t.) To convert into an alkali; to give alkaline properties to.
Alkalify (v. i.) To become changed into an alkali.
Alkalimeter (n.) An instrument to ascertain the strength of alkalies, or the quantity of alkali in a mixture.
Alkalimetric (a.) Alt. of Alkalimetrical
Alkalimetrical (a.) Of or pertaining to alkalimetry.
Alkalimetry (n.) The art or process of ascertaining the strength of alkalies, or the quantity present in alkaline mixtures.
Alkaline (a.) Of or pertaining to an alkali or to alkalies; having the properties of an alkali.
Alkalinity (n.) The quality which constitutes an alkali; alkaline property.
Alkalious (a.) Alkaline.
Alkalizate (a.) Alkaline.
Alkalizate (v. t.) To alkalizate.
Alkalization (n.) The act rendering alkaline by impregnating with an alkali; a conferring of alkaline qualities.
Alkalized (imp. & p. p.) of Alkalize
Alkalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Alkalize
Alkalize (v. t.) To render alkaline; to communicate the properties of an alkali to.
Alkaloid (a.) Alt. of Alkaloidal
Alkaloidal (a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, alkali.
Alkaloid (n.) An organic base, especially one of a class of substances occurring ready formed in the tissues of plants and the bodies of animals.
Alkanet (n.) A dyeing matter extracted from the roots of Alkanna tinctoria, which gives a fine deep red color.
Alkanet (n.) A boraginaceous herb (Alkanna tinctoria) yielding the dye; orchanet.
Alkanet (n.) The similar plant Anchusa officinalis; bugloss; also, the American puccoon.
Alkargen (n.) Same as Cacodylic acid.
Alkarsin (n.) A spontaneously inflammable liquid, having a repulsive odor, and consisting of cacodyl and its oxidation products; -- called also Cadel's fuming liquid.
Alkazar () See Alcazar.
Alkekengi (n.) An herbaceous plant of the nightshade family (Physalis alkekengi) and its fruit, which is a well flavored berry, the size of a cherry, loosely inclosed in a enlarged leafy calyx; -- also called winter cherry, ground cherry, and strawberry tomato.
Alkermes (n.) A compound cordial, in the form of a confection, deriving its name from the kermes insect, its principal ingredient.
Alkoran (n.) The Mohammedan Scriptures. Same as Alcoran and Koran.
Alkoranic (a.) Same as Alcoranic.
Alkoranist (n.) Same as Alcoranist.
All (a.) The whole quantity, extent, duration, amount, quality, or degree of; the whole; the whole number of; any whatever; every; as, all the wheat; all the land; all the year; all the strength; all happiness; all abundance; loss of all power; beyond all doubt; you will see us all (or all of us).
All (a.) Any.
All (a.) Only; alone; nothing but.
All (adv.) Wholly; completely; altogether; entirely; quite; very; as, all bedewed; my friend is all for amusement.
All (adv.) Even; just. (Often a mere intensive adjunct.)
All (n.) The whole number, quantity, or amount; the entire thing; everything included or concerned; the aggregate; the whole; totality; everything or every person; as, our all is at stake.
All (conj.) Although; albeit.
Alla breve () With one breve, or four minims, to measure, and sung faster like four crotchets; in quick common time; -- indicated in the time signature by /.
Allah (n.) The name of the Supreme Being, in use among the Arabs and the Mohammedans generally.
All-a-mort (a.) See Alamort.