Allottee (n.) One to whom anything is allotted; one to whom an allotment is made.
Allotter (n.) One who allots.
Allottery (n.) Allotment.
Allowed (imp. & p. p.) of Allow
Allowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Allow
Allow (v. t.) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
Allow (v. t.) To like; to be suited or pleased with.
Allow (v. t.) To sanction; to invest; to intrust.
Allow (v. t.) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest.
Allow (v. t.) To own or acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion; as, to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow the truth of a proposition.
Allow (v. t.) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage.
Allow (v. t.) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent.
Allow (v. i.) To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.
Allowable (a.) Praiseworthy; laudable.
Allowable (a.) Proper to be, or capable of being, allowed; permissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends.
Allowableness (n.) The quality of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety.
Allowably (adv.) In an allowable manner.
Allowance (n.) Approval; approbation.
Allowance (n.) The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
Allowance (n.) Acknowledgment.
Allowance (n.) License; indulgence.
Allowance (n.) That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
Allowance (n.) Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.
Allowance (n.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
Allowancing (imp. & p. p.) of Allowance
Allowance (n.) To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were allowanced.
Allowedly (adv.) By allowance; admittedly.
Allower (n.) An approver or abettor.
Allower (n.) One who allows or permits.
Alloxan (n.) An oxidation product of uric acid. It is of a pale reddish color, readily soluble in water or alcohol.
Alloxanate (n.) A combination of alloxanic acid and a base or base or positive radical.
Alloxanic (a.) Of or pertaining to alloxan; -- applied to an acid obtained by the action of soluble alkalies on alloxan.
Alloxantin (n.) A substance produced by acting upon uric with warm and very dilute nitric acid.
Alloy (v. t.) Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam.
Alloy (v. t.) The quality, or comparative purity, of gold or silver; fineness.
Alloy (v. t.) A baser metal mixed with a finer.
Alloy (v. t.) Admixture of anything which lessens the value or detracts from; as, no happiness is without alloy.
Alloyed (imp. & p. p.) of Alloy
Alloying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Alloy
Alloy (v. t.) To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance; as, to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper.
Alloy (v. t.) To mix, as metals, so as to form a compound.
Alloy (v. t.) To abate, impair, or debase by mixture; to allay; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes.
Alloy (v. t.) To form a metallic compound.
Alloyage (n.) The act or art of alloying metals; also, the combination or alloy.
All-possessed (a.) Controlled by an evil spirit or by evil passions; wild.
All Saints () Alt. of All Saints'
All Saints' () The first day of November, called, also, Allhallows or Hallowmas; a feast day kept in honor of all the saints; also, the season of this festival.
All Souls' Day () The second day of November; a feast day of the Roman Catholic church, on which supplications are made for the souls of the faithful dead.
Allspice (n.) The berry of the pimento (Eugenia pimenta), a tree of the West Indies; a spice of a mildly pungent taste, and agreeably aromatic; Jamaica pepper; pimento. It has been supposed to combine the flavor of cinnamon, nutmegs, and cloves; and hence the name. The name is also given to other aromatic shrubs; as, the Carolina allspice (Calycanthus floridus); wild allspice (Lindera benzoin), called also spicebush, spicewood, and feverbush.
Allthing (adv.) Altogether.
Alluded (imp. & p. p.) of Allude
Alluding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Allude
Allude (v. i.) To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to have reference to a subject not specifically and plainly mentioned; -- followed by to; as, the story alludes to a recent transaction.
Allude (v. t.) To compare allusively; to refer (something) as applicable.
Allumette (n.) A match for lighting candles, lamps, etc.
Alluminor (n.) An illuminator of manuscripts and books; a limner.
Allurance (n.) Allurement.
Alluded (imp. & p. p.) of Allure
Alluring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Allure
Allure (v. t.) To attempt to draw; to tempt by a lure or bait, that is, by the offer of some good, real or apparent; to invite by something flattering or acceptable; to entice; to attract.
Allure (n.) Allurement.
Allure (n.) Gait; bearing.
Allurement (n.) The act alluring; temptation; enticement.
Allurement (n.) That which allures; any real or apparent good held forth, or operating, as a motive to action; as, the allurements of pleasure, or of honor.
Allurer (n.) One who, or that which, allures.
Alluring (a.) That allures; attracting; charming; tempting.
Allusion (n.) A figurative or symbolical reference.
Allusion (n.) A reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned; a covert indication; indirect reference; a hint.
Allusive (a.) Figurative; symbolical.
Allusive (a.) Having reference to something not fully expressed; containing an allusion.
Allusively (adv.) Figuratively [Obs.]; by way of allusion; by implication, suggestion, or insinuation.
Allusiveness (n.) The quality of being allusive.
Allusory (a.) Allusive.
Alluvial (a.) Pertaining to, contained in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.
Alluvion (n.) Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank.
Alluvion (n.) An overflowing; an inundation; a flood.
Alluvion (n.) Matter deposited by an inundation or the action of flowing water; alluvium.
Alluvion (n.) An accession of land gradually washed to the shore or bank by the flowing of water. See Accretion.
Alluvious (n.) Alluvial.
Alluviums (pl. ) of Alluvium
Alluvia (pl. ) of Alluvium
Alluvium (n.) Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas.
Allwhere (adv.) Everywhere.
Allwork (n.) Domestic or other work of all kinds; as, a maid of allwork, that is, a general servant.
Allied (imp. & p. p.) of Ally
Allying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ally
Ally (v. t.) To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy; -- often followed by to or with.
Ally (v. t.) To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love.
Allies (pl. ) of Ally
Ally (v.) A relative; a kinsman.
Ally (v.) One united to another by treaty or league; -- usually applied to sovereigns or states; a confederate.
Ally (v.) Anything associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary.
Ally (v.) Anything akin to another by structure, etc.
Ally (n.) See Alley, a marble or taw.
Allyl (n.) An organic radical, C3H5, existing especially in oils of garlic and mustard.
Allylene (n.) A gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H4, homologous with acetylene; propine.
Alma (n.) Alt. of Almah
Almah (n.) Same as Alme.
Almacantar (n.) Same as Almucantar.
Almacantar (n.) A recently invented instrument for observing the heavenly bodies as they cross a given almacantar circle. See Almucantar.