ALATERN
AL'ATERN, noun A trivial name of a species of rhamnus or buckthorn.
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ALB
ALB, noun [Latin albus, Gr. white.]A surplice or vestment of white linen, reaching to the feet, worn by the Romish clergy. Also a Turkish coin, called also an asper, value one h...
ALBATROS
AL'BATROS, noun An aquatic fowl, belonging to the order of ansers. The bill is strait; the upper mandible crooked at the point, and the lower one truncated; the nostrils are ova...
ALBEGEOIS
ALBIGEN'SES, ALBEGEOISnoun A party of Reformers, who separated from the church of Rome, in the 12th century; so called from the albegeois a small territory in France, where they...
ALBEIT
ALBE'IT, [This is supposed to be a compound of all, be and it, and is equivalent to admit, or grant it all.]Be it so; admit all that; although; notwithstanding.Whereas ye say, t...
ALBELEN
AL'BELEN, noun A fish of the truttaceous or trout kind, found in the German lakes, weighing five or six pounds.
ALBESCENT
ALBES'CENT, adjective [Latin albesco, to grow white.]Becoming white, or rather, whitish; moderately white.
ALBICORE
AL'BICORE, noun A marine fish, like a tunny, noted for following ships.
ALBIGENSES
ALBIGEN'SES, ALBEGEOIS, noun A party of Reformers, who separated from the church of Rome, in the 12th century; so called from the Albegeois, a small territory in France, where t...
ALBIN
AL'BIN, noun [Latin albus, white.]A mineral, of an opake white color, consisting of aggregated crystalline lamins, found in Bohemia.This is regarded as a variety of apophyllite.
ALBINO
ALBI'NO, noun [Latin albus, white.]A white descendant of black parents, or a white person belonging to a race of blacks. A person naturally white.
ALBINOS
ALBI'NOS, noun A name signifying white men, given by the Portuguese to the white negroes of Africa. The color of this race appears like that of persons affected with leprosy; an...
ALBION
AL'BION, noun An ancient name of England, still used in poetry. It is supposed this name was given to it on account of its white cliffs.
ALBORA
ALBO'RA, noun A sort of itch or rather leprosy, terminating without ulceration, but with fetid evacuations in the mouth and nostrils.
ALBORO
ALBO'RO, noun The erythrinus, a small red fish of the Mediterranean.
ALBUGINEOUS
ALBUGIN'EOUS, adjective [Latin albugo, the white spot in the eye, from albus white.]Pertaining to or resembling the white of the eye, or of an egg.Albugineous humor, the aqueous...
ALBUGO
ALBU'GO, noun The white speck in the eye, called the film, haw, dragon, pearl or cicatrice. Also a disease of the eye, occasioned by a white opake spot growing on the cornea and...
ALBULA
ALBU'LA, noun A species of truttaceous fish, destitute of teeth. The albula Indica is called by the Dutch wit-fish, and is of the size of a herring. The albula nobilis is a fish...
ALBUM
AL'BUM, noun [Latin albus, white.]1. Among the Romans, a white table, board or register, on which the names of public officers and public transactions were entered.2. A book, or...
ALBUMEN
ALBU'MEN, noun [Latin from albus, white.]The white of an egg. A like substance is a chief constituent in all animal solids.
ALBUMINOUS
ALBU'MINOUS, adjective Pertaining to, or having the properties of albumen.
ALBURN
AL'BURN,ALBURN'UM, noun [Latin alburnum, from albus, white.]The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and wood. In America, it is popularly called the sap. This ...
ALBURNUM
ALBURN'UM, n. [L. alburnum, from albus, white.]The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and wood. In America, it is popularly called the sap. This is annually a...
ALCAHEST
AL'CAHEST, or ALKAHEST, nounA pretended universal dissolvent, or menstruum.
ALCAIC
ALCA'IC, adjective Pertaining to Alcaeus, a Lyric poet of Mitylene, in Lesbos, who flourished about the forty-fourth Olympiad; or to other poets of the same name, of which three...
ALCAICS
ALCA'ICS, nounplural Several kinds of verse; so called from Alcaeus, their inventor. One kind consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable and two dact...
ALCAID
ALCA'ID,Among the Moors, Spaniards and Portuguese, a governor. In Portugal, the chief civil magistrate of a town or city; also the jurisdiction of certain judges of appeal. In S...