Webster's Dictionary 1828

1540

ALCANNA

ALCAN'NA, noun A plant; and a powder, prepared from the leaves of the Egyptian privet, used by the Turkish females to give a golden color to the nails and hair. Infused in water...

1541

ALCATRAZ

AL'CATRAZ, noun The Spanish name of the Pelecanus Onocrotalus of Linne; a pelican; also a fish taken on the coast of India.

1542

ALCAVALA

ALCAV'ALA, noun In Spain, a tax on every transfer of property, real or personal.

1543

ALCEDO

ALCE'DO, noun [Latin]The king fisher; a genus of birds, of the order of Picae. The species are numerous. They usually live about rivers, feeding on fish, which they take by dart...

1544

ALCHIMIC

ALCHIM'IC,ALCHIM'ICALALCHIM'ICALLY, adjective Relating to alchimy, or produced by it.adv. In the manner of alchimy.

1545

ALCHIMICAL

ALCHIM'ICAL, a. Relating to alchimy, or produced by it.adv. In the manner of alchimy.

1546

ALCHIMICALLY

ALCHIM'ICALLY, a. Relating to alchimy, or produced by it.adv. In the manner of alchimy.

1547

ALCHIMIST

AL'CHIMIST, noun One who practices alchimy.

1548

ALCHIMISTIC

ALCHIMIST'IC,ALCHIMIST'ICAL, adjective Practicing alchimy, or relating to it.

1549

ALCHIMISTICAL

ALCHIMIST'ICAL, a. Practicing alchimy, or relating to it.

1550

ALCHIMY

AL'CHIMY, noun [See Chimistry.]1. The more sublime and difficult part of chimistry, and chiefly such as relate to the transmutation of metals are gold, the finding a universal r...

1551

ALCMANIAN

ALCMA'NIAN, adjective Pertaining to Alcman, a lyric poet of the twenty-seventh Olympiad, celebrated for his amorous verses. The alcmanian verse consisted of two dactyls and two ...

1552

ALCO

AL'CO, noun a quadruped of America, nearly resembling a dog, but mute and melancholy; and this circumstance seems to have given rise to the fable that dogs, transported to Ameri...

1553

ALCOHOL

AL'COHOL, noun [Heb. to paint with a preparation of powder of antimony. The oriental females still practice the painting of the eye brows with this material. The name was applie...

1554

ALCOHOLIC

ALCOHOL'IC, adjective Pertaining to alcohol, or partaking of its qualities.

1555

ALCOHOLIZATION

ALCOHOLIZA'TION, noun the act of rectifying spirit, till it is wholly dephlegmatedor of reducing a substance to an impalpable powder.

1556

ALCOHOLIZE

AL'COHOLIZE, verb transitive To convert into alcohol; to rectify spirit till it is wholly dephlegmated; also, to reduce a substance to an impalpable powder.

1557

ALCOR

AL'COR, noun A small star adjoining to the large bright one in the middle of the tail of Ursa Major.

1558

ALCORAN

ALCORAN. [See Koran and Alkoran.]

1559

ALCOVE

AL'COVE or ALCO'VE, noun [Eng. cubby.]1. A recess, or part of a room, separated by an estrade, or partition of columns, or by other corresponding ornaments; in which is placed a...

1560

ALCYON

AL'CYON, noun A trivial name of the kingfisher. [See Halcyon.]

1561

ALCYONITE

AL'CYONITE, noun A fossil zoophite, somewhat resembling a fungus.

1562

ALCYONIUM

ALCYO'NIUM, noun The name of a submarine plant, or bastard spunge. Also a kind of astroit or coral, a fossil found in England.

1563

ALDER

AL'DER, noun [Latin alnus.]A tree, usually growing in moist land, and belonging to the genus Alnus. The name is applied also to some species of other genera.

1564

ALDERMAN

ALD'ERMAN, nounplural Aldermen.1. Among our Saxon ancestors, a senior or superior. The title was applied to princes, dukes, earls, senators and presiding magistrates; also to ar...

1565

ALDERMANLY

AL'DERMANLY, adjective Pertaining to or like an alderman.

1566

ALDERN

AL'DERN, adjective Made of Alder.