Allhallowmas (n.) The feast of All Saints.
Allhallown (a.) Of or pertaining to the time of Allhallows. [Obs.] "Allhallown summer." Shak. (i. e., late summer; "Indian Summer").
Allhallowtide (n.) The time at or near All Saints, or November 1st.
Allheal (n.) A name popularly given to the officinal valerian, and to some other plants.
Alliable (a.) Able to enter into alliance.
Alliaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to the genus Allium, or garlic, onions, leeks, etc.; having the smell or taste of garlic or onions.
Alliance (n.) The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state; an alliance between France and England.
Alliance (n.) Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.
Alliance (n.) The persons or parties allied.
Alliance (v. t.) To connect by alliance; to ally.
Alliant (n.) An ally; a confederate.
Allice (n.) Alt. of Allis
Allis (n.) The European shad (Clupea vulgaris); allice shad. See Alose.
Alliciency (n.) Attractive power; attractiveness.
Allicient (a.) That attracts; attracting.
Allicient (n.) That attracts.
Allied (a.) United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally.
Alligate (v. t.) To tie; to unite by some tie.
Alligation (n.) The act of tying together or attaching by some bond, or the state of being attached.
Alligation (n.) A rule relating to the solution of questions concerning the compounding or mixing of different ingredients, or ingredients of different qualities or values.
Alligator (n.) A large carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South America.
Alligator (n.) Any machine with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator
Alligator (n.) a form of squeezer for the puddle ball
Alligator (n.) a rock breaker
Alligator (n.) a kind of job press, called also alligator press.
Allignment (n.) See Alignment.
Allineate (v. t.) To align.
Allineation (n.) Alt. of Alineation
Alineation (n.) Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun.
Allision (n.) The act of dashing against, or striking upon.
Alliteral (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration.
Alliterate (v. t.) To employ or place so as to make alliteration.
Alliterate (v. i.) To compose alliteratively; also, to constitute alliteration.
Alliteration (n.) The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: -
Alliterative (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as, alliterative poetry.
Alliterator (n.) One who alliterates.
Allium (n.) A genus of plants, including the onion, garlic, leek, chive, etc.
Allmouth (n.) The angler.
Allness (n.) Totality; completeness.
Allnight (n.) Light, fuel, or food for the whole night.
Allocate (v. t.) To distribute or assign; to allot.
Allocate (v. t.) To localize.
Allocation (n.) The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement.
Allocation (n.) An allotment or apportionment; as, an allocation of shares in a company.
Allocation (n.) The admission of an item in an account, or an allowance made upon an account; -- a term used in the English exchequer.
Allocatur (n.) "Allowed." The word allocatur expresses the allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer.
Allochroic (a.) Changeable in color.
Allochroite (n.) See Garnet.
Allochroous (a.) Changing color.
Allocution (n.) The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words.
Allocution (n.) An address; a hortatory or authoritative address as of a pope to his clergy.
Allod (n.) See Allodium.
Allodial (a.) Pertaining to allodium; freehold; free of rent or service; held independent of a lord paramount; -- opposed to feudal; as, allodial lands; allodial system.
Allodial (a.) Anything held allodially.
Allodialism (n.) The allodial system.
Allodialist (n.) One who holds allodial land.
Allodially (adv.) By allodial tenure.
Allodiary (n.) One who holds an allodium.
Allodium (n.) Freehold estate; land which is the absolute property of the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud.
Allogamous (a.) Characterized by allogamy.
Allogamy (n.) Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species; cross-fertilization.
Allogeneous (a.) Different in nature or kind.
Allograph (n.) A writing or signature made by some person other than any of the parties thereto; -- opposed to autograph.
Allomerism (n.) Variability in chemical constitution without variation in crystalline form.
Allomerous (a.) Characterized by allomerism.
Allomorph (n.) Any one of two or more distinct crystalline forms of the same substance; or the substance having such forms; -- as, carbonate of lime occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite.
Allomorph (n.) A variety of pseudomorph which has undergone partial or complete change or substitution of material; -- thus limonite is frequently an allomorph after pyrite.
Allomorphic (a.) Of or pertaining to allomorphism.
Allomorphism (n.) The property which constitutes an allomorph; the change involved in becoming an allomorph.
Allonge (v.) A thrust or pass; a lunge.
Allonge (v.) A slip of paper attached to a bill of exchange for receiving indorsements, when the back of the bill itself is already full; a rider.
Allonge (v. i.) To thrust with a sword; to lunge.
Allonym (n.) The name of another person assumed by the author of a work.
Allonym (n.) A work published under the name of some one other than the author.
Allonymous (a.) Published under the name of some one other than the author.
Alloo (v. t. / i.) To incite dogs by a call; to halloo.
Allopath (n.) An allopathist.
Allopathic (a.) Of or pertaining to allopathy.
Allopathically (adv.) In a manner conformable to allopathy; by allopathic methods.
Allopathist (n.) One who practices allopathy; one who professes allopathy.
Allopathy (n.) That system of medical practice which aims to combat disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the special disease treated; -- a term invented by Hahnemann to designate the ordinary practice, as opposed to homeopathy.
Allophylic (a.) Alt. of Allophylian
Allophylian (a.) Pertaining to a race or a language neither Aryan nor Semitic.
Alloquy (n.) A speaking to another; an address.
Allotted (imp. & p. p.) of Allot
Allotting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Allot
Allot (v. t.) To distribute by lot.
Allot (v. t.) To distribute, or parcel out in parts or portions; or to distribute to each individual concerned; to assign as a share or lot; to set apart as one's share; to bestow on; to grant; to appoint; as, let every man be contented with that which Providence allots him.
Allotheism (n.) The worship of strange gods.
Allotment (n.) The act of allotting; assignment.
Allotment (n.) That which is allotted; a share, part, or portion granted or distributed; that which is assigned by lot, or by the act of God; anything set apart for a special use or to a distinct party.
Allotment (n.) The allowance of a specific amount of scrip or of a particular thing to a particular person.
Allotriophagy (n.) A depraved appetite; a desire for improper food.
Allotropic (a.) Alt. of Allotropical
Allotropical (a.) Of or pertaining to allotropism.
Allotropicity (n.) Allotropic property or nature.
Allotropism (n.) Alt. of Allotropy
Allotropy (n.) The property of existing in two or more conditions which are distinct in their physical or chemical relations.
Allotropize (v. t.) To change in physical properties but not in substance.
Allottable (a.) Capable of being allotted.