ALIKE — ALL-JUST

ALIKE — ALL-JUST NWAD ALIKE.1

ALIKE, a. NWAD ALIKE.1

Having resemblance or similitude; similar. NWAD ALIKE.2

The darkness and the light are both alike to thee. Psalm 139:12. NWAD ALIKE.3

[This adjective never precedes the noun which it qualifies.] NWAD ALIKE.4

ALIKE, adv. in the same manner, form or degree. NWAD ALIKE.5

We are all alike concerned in religion. NWAD ALIKE.6

He fashioneth their hearts alike. Psalm 33:15. NWAD ALIKE.7

ALIKE-MINDED, a. Having the same mind; but like-minded is more generally used. NWAD ALIKE-MINDED.1

ALIMENT, n. [L. alimentum, from alo, to feed.] NWAD ALIMENT.1

That which nourishes; food; nutriment; any thing which feeds or adds to a substance, animal or vegetable, in natural growth. NWAD ALIMENT.2

ALIMENTAL, a. Supplying food; that has the quality of nourishing; that furnishes the materials for natural growth; as, chyle is alimental; alimental sap. NWAD ALIMENTAL.1

ALIMENTALLY, adv. So as to serve for nourishment or food. NWAD ALIMENTALLY.1

ALIMENTARINESS, n. The quality of supplying nutriment. NWAD ALIMENTARINESS.1

ALIMENTARY, a. Pertaining to aliment or food; having the quality of nourishing; as, alimentary particles. NWAD ALIMENTARY.1

The alimentary canal, in animal bodies, is the great duct or intestine, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the useless parts evacuated. NWAD ALIMENTARY.2

Alimentary law, among the Romans, was a law which obliged children to support their parents. NWAD ALIMENTARY.3

Obligation of aliment, in Scots law, is the natural obligation of parents to provide for their children. NWAD ALIMENTARY.4

ALIMENTATION, n. NWAD ALIMENTATION.1

1. The act or power of affording nutriment. NWAD ALIMENTATION.2

2. The state of being nourished. NWAD ALIMENTATION.3

ALIMONIOUS, a. [See Alimony.] Nourishing; affording food. [Little used.] NWAD ALIMONIOUS.1

ALIMONY, n. [L. alimonia, of alo, to feed. See Aliment.] NWAD ALIMONY.1

An allowance made for the support of a woman, legally separated from her husband. The sum is fixed by the proper judge, and granted out of the husband’s estate. NWAD ALIMONY.2

ALIPED, a. [L. ala, wing, and pes, foot.] NWAD ALIPED.1

Wing-footed; having the toes connected by a membrane, which serves as a wing. NWAD ALIPED.2

ALIPED, n. [Supra.] NWAD ALIPED.3

An animal whose toes are connected by a membrane, and which thus serve for wings; a cheiropter; as, the bat. NWAD ALIPED.4

ALIQUANT, a. [L. aliquantum, a little.] NWAD ALIQUANT.1

In arithmetic, an aliquant number or part is that which does not measure another number without a remainder. Thus 5 is an aliquant part of 16, for 3 times 5 is 15, leaving a remainder 1. NWAD ALIQUANT.2

ALIQUOT, a. [L.] NWAD ALIQUOT.1

An aliquot part of a number or quantity is one which will measure it without a remainder. Thus 5 is the aliquot part of 15. NWAD ALIQUOT.2

ALISH, a. [From ale.] Like ale; having the qualities of ale. NWAD ALISH.1

ALIVE, a. NWAD ALIVE.1

1. Having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions, and the fluids move, whether in animals or vegetables; as, the man or plant is alive. NWAD ALIVE.2

2. In a state of action; unextinguished; undestroyed; unexpired; in force or operation; as, keep the process alive. NWAD ALIVE.3

3. Cheerful; sprightly; lively; full of alacrity; as, the company were all alive. NWAD ALIVE.4

4. Susceptible; easily impressed; having lively feelings, as when the mind is solicitous about some event; as, one is alive to whatever is interesting to a friend. NWAD ALIVE.5

5. Exhibiting motion or moving bodies in great numbers. NWAD ALIVE.6

The city was all alive, when the General entered. NWAD ALIVE.7

6. In a scriptural sense, regenerated; born again. NWAD ALIVE.8

For this my son was dead and is alive. Luke 15:24. NWAD ALIVE.9

[This adjective always follows the noun which it qualifies.] NWAD ALIVE.10

ALKAHEST, n. NWAD ALKAHEST.1

A universal dissolvent; a menstrumm capable of dissolving every body, which Paracelsus and Van Helmont pretended they possessed. This pretense no longer imposses on the credulity of any man. NWAD ALKAHEST.2

The word is sometimes used for fixed salts volatilized. NWAD ALKAHEST.3

ALKALESCENCY, n. [See Alkali.] NWAD ALKALESCENCY.1

A tendency to become alkaline; or a tendency to the properties of an alkali; or the state of a substance in which alkaline properties begin to be developed, or to be predominant. NWAD ALKALESCENCY.2

ALKALESCENT, a. tending to the properties of an alkali; slightly alkaline. NWAD ALKALESCENT.1

ALKALI, n. plu. Alkalies NWAD ALKALI.1

In chimistry, a term applied to all bodies which possess the following properties: NWAD ALKALI.2

1. a caustic taste; NWAD ALKALI.3

2. volatilizable by heat; NWAD ALKALI.4

3. capability of combining with acids, and of destroying their acidity; NWAD ALKALI.5

4. solubility in water, even when combined with carbonic acid; NWAD ALKALI.6

5. capability of converting vegetable blues to green. NWAD ALKALI.7

The term was formerly confined to three substances: NWAD ALKALI.8

1. potash or vegetable fixed alkali, generally obtained from the ashes of wood; NWAD ALKALI.9

2. soda or mineral fixed alkali, which is found in the earth and procured from marine plants; and NWAD ALKALI.10

3. ammonia or volatile alkali, an animal product. NWAD ALKALI.11

Modern chimistry has discovered many new substances to which the term is now extended. NWAD ALKALI.12

The alkalies were formerly considered as elementary substances; but it is now ascertained that they are all compounds. NWAD ALKALI.13

The alkalies are used in the manufacture of glass and soap, in bleaching and in medicine. NWAD ALKALI.14

ALKALIFY, v.t. To form, or to convert into an alkali. NWAD ALKALIFY.1

ALKALIFY, v.i. To become an alkali. NWAD ALKALIFY.2

ALKALIGENOUS, a. [Alkali and to generate.] NWAD ALKALIGENOUS.1

Producing or generating alkali. NWAD ALKALIGENOUS.2

ALKALIMETER, n. [Alkali and Gr. measure.] NWAD ALKALIMETER.1

An instrument for ascertaining the strength of alkalies, or the quantity of alkali in potash and soda. NWAD ALKALIMETER.2

ALKALINE, a. Having the properties of alkali. NWAD ALKALINE.1

ALKALINITY, n. The quality which constitutes an alkali. NWAD ALKALINITY.1

ALKALIZATE, a. Alkaline; impregnated with alkali. Obs. NWAD ALKALIZATE.1

ALKALIZATION, n. The act of rendering alkaline by impregnating with an alkali. NWAD ALKALIZATION.1

ALKALIZE, v.t. [and formerly Alkalizate.] NWAD ALKALIZE.1

To make alkaline; to communicate the properties of an alkali to, by mixture. NWAD ALKALIZE.2

ALKANET, n. The plant bugloss. The root is used to impart a deep red color to oily substances, ointments, plasters, etc. NWAD ALKANET.1

ALKEKENGI, n. The winter cherry, a species of physalis. The plant bears a near resemblance to solanum, or nightshade. The berry is medicinal. NWAD ALKEKENGI.1

ALKENNA, ALHENNA, n. Egyptian privet, a species of Lawsonia. The pulverized leaves of this plant are much used by the eastern nations for staining their nails yellow. The powder, being wet, forms a paste, which is bound on the nails for a night, and the color thus given will last several weeks. NWAD ALKENNA.1

ALKERMES, n. NWAD ALKERMES.1

In pharmacy, a compound cordial, in the form of a confection, derived from the kermes berries. Its other ingredients are said to be pippin-cider, rose water, sugar, ambergris, musk, cinnamon, aloes-wood, pearls, and leaf-gold. NWAD ALKERMES.2

ALKERVA, n. An arabic name of the Palma Christi. NWAD ALKERVA.1

ALKORAN, n. NWAD ALKORAN.1

The book which contains the Mohammedan doctrines of faith and practice. It was written by Mohammed, in the dialect of the Koreish, which is the purest Arabic; but the Arabian language has suffered such changes, since it was written, that the language of the Alkoran is not now intelligible to the Arabians themselves, without being learned like other dead languages. NWAD ALKORAN.2

ALKORANIST, n. One who adheres strictly to the letter of the Alkoran, rejecting all comments. The Persians are generally Alkoranists; the Turks, Arabs, and Tartars admit a multitude of traditions. NWAD ALKORANIST.1

ALKUSSA, n. A fish of the Silurus kind, with one beard only under the chin. NWAD ALKUSSA.1

ALL, a. awl. [Gr. Shemitic from calah, to be ended or completed to perfect.] NWAD ALL.1

1. Every one, or the whole number of particulars. NWAD ALL.2

2. The whole quantity, extent, duration, amount, quality, or degree; as, all the wheat; all the land; all the year; all the strength. This word signifies then, the whole or entire thing, or all the parts or particulars which compose it. It always precedes the definitive adjectives, the, my, thy, his, our, your, their; as, all the cattle; all my labor; all thy goods; all his wealth; all our families; all your citizens; all their property. NWAD ALL.3

This word, not only in popular language, but in the scriptures, often signifies, indefinitely, a large portion or number, or a great part. Thus, all the cattle in Egypt died; all Judea and all the region round about Jordan; all men held John as a prophet; are not to be understood in a literal sense, but as including a large part or very great numbers. NWAD ALL.4

This word is prefixed to many other words, to enlarge their signification; as already, always, all-prevailing. NWAD ALL.5

ALL, adv. Wholly; completely; entirely; as all along; all bedewed; all over; my friend is all for amusement; I love my father all. In the ancient phrases, all too dear, all so long, this word retains its appropriate sense; as,”he thought them six-pence all too dear,” that is, he thought them too dear by the sum of sixpence. In the sense of although, as, “all were it as the rest,” and in the sense of just, or at the moment, as “all as his straying flock he fed,” it is obsolete, or restricted to poetry. NWAD ALL.6

It is all one is a phrase equivalent to the same thing in effect; that is, it is wholly the same thing. NWAD ALL.7

All the better is equivalent to wholly the better; that is, better by the whole difference. NWAD ALL.8

ALL, n. NWAD ALL.9

1. The whole number; as, all have not the same disposition; that is, all men. NWAD ALL.10

2. The whole; the entire thing; the aggregate amount; as, our all is at stake. NWAD ALL.11

And Laban said, all that thou seest is mine. Genesis 31:43. NWAD ALL.12

This adjective is much used as a noun, and applied to persons or things. NWAD ALL.13

All in all is a phrase which signifies, all things to a person, or every thing desired. NWAD ALL.14

Thou shalt be all in all, and I in thee, Forever. NWAD ALL.15

When the words, and all close an enumeration of particulars, the word all is either intensive, or is added as a general term to express what is not enumerated; as a tree fell, nest, eagles and all. NWAD ALL.16

At all is a phrase much used by way of enforcement or emphasis, usually in negative or interrogative sentences. He has no ambition at all; that is, not in the least degree. Has he any property at all? NWAD ALL.17

All and some, in Spenser, Mason interprets, one and all. But from Lye’s Saxon Dictionary, it appears that the phrase is a corruption of the Sax. ealle at somne, all together, all at once, from somne, together, at once. See Lye under Somne. NWAD ALL.18

All in the wind, in seamen’s language, is a phrase denoting that the sails are parallel with the course of the wind, so as to shake. NWAD ALL.19

All is well is a watchman’s phrase, expressing a state of safety. NWAD ALL.20

All, in composition, enlarges the meaning, or adds force to a word; and it is generally more emphatical than most. In some instances, all is incorporated into words, as in almighty, already, always; but in most instances, it is an adjective prefixed to other words, but separated by a hyphen. NWAD ALL.21

ALL-ABANDONED, a. Abandoned by all NWAD ALL-ABANDONED.1

ALL-ABHORRED, a. Detested by all. NWAD ALL-ABHORRED.1

ALL-ACCOMPLISHED, a. Fully accomplished; whose education is highly finished or complete. NWAD ALL-ACCOMPLISHED.1

ALL-ADMIRING, a. Wholly admiring. NWAD ALL-ADMIRING.1

ALL-ADVISED, a. Advised by all. NWAD ALL-ADVISED.1

ALL-APPROVED, a. Approved by all. NWAD ALL-APPROVED.1

ALL-ATONING, a. Atoning for all; making complete atonement. NWAD ALL-ATONING.1

ALL-BEARING, a. Producing every thing; omniparous. NWAD ALL-BEARING.1

ALL-BEAUTEOUS, a. Perfectly beautiful NWAD ALL-BEAUTEOUS.1

ALL-BEHOLDING, a. Beholding or seeing all things. NWAD ALL-BEHOLDING.1

ALL-BLASTING, a. Blasting all; defaming or destroying all. NWAD ALL-BLASTING.1

ALL-BOUNTEOUS, ALL-BOUNTIFUL, a. Perfectly bountiful; of infinite bounty. NWAD ALL-BOUNTEOUS.1

ALL-CHANGING, a. Perpetually changing. NWAD ALL-CHANGING.1

ALL-CHEERING, a. That cheers all; that gives gaiety or cheerfulness to all. NWAD ALL-CHEERING.1

ALL-COMMANDING, a. Having command or sovereignty over all. NWAD ALL-COMMANDING.1

ALL-COMPLYING, a. Complying in every respect. NWAD ALL-COMPLYING.1

ALL-COMPOSING, a. That makes all tranquil or peaceful. NWAD ALL-COMPOSING.1

ALL-COMPREHENSIVE, a. Comprehending all things. NWAD ALL-COMPREHENSIVE.1

ALL-CONCEALING, a. Hiding or concealing all. NWAD ALL-CONCEALING.1

ALL-CONQUERING, a. That subdues all. NWAD ALL-CONQUERING.1

ALL-CONSCIOUS, a. Conscious of all; all-knowing. NWAD ALL-CONSCIOUS.1

ALL-CONSTRAINING, a. Constraining all NWAD ALL-CONSTRAINING.1

ALL-CONSUMING, a. That consumes or devours all. NWAD ALL-CONSUMING.1

ALL-DARING, a. Daring to attempt every thing. NWAD ALL-DARING.1

ALL-DESTROYING, a. Destroying every thing. NWAD ALL-DESTROYING.1

ALL-DEVASTATING, a. Wasting every thing. NWAD ALL-DEVASTATING.1

ALL-DEVOURING, a. Eating or consuming all. NWAD ALL-DEVOURING.1

ALL-DIMMING, a. Obscuring every thing. NWAD ALL-DIMMING.1

ALL-DISCOVERING, a. Discovering or disclosing every thing. NWAD ALL-DISCOVERING.1

ALL-DISGRACED, a. Completely disgraced. NWAD ALL-DISGRACED.1

ALL-DISPENSING, a. Dispensing all things; affording dispensation or permission. NWAD ALL-DISPENSING.1

ALL-DIVINE, a. Supremely excellent. NWAD ALL-DIVINE.1

ALL-DIVINING, a. Foretelling all things. NWAD ALL-DIVINING.1

ALL-DREADED, a. Dreaded by all. NWAD ALL-DREADED.1

ALL-EFFICIENT, a. Of perfect or unlimited efficacy or efficiency. NWAD ALL-EFFICIENT.1

ALL-ELOQUENT, a. Eloquent in the highest degree. NWAD ALL-ELOQUENT.1

ALL-EMBRACING, a. Embracing all things. NWAD ALL-EMBRACING.1

ALL-ENDING, a. Putting an end to all things. NWAD ALL-ENDING.1

ALL-ENLIGHTENING, a. Enlightening all things. NWAD ALL-ENLIGHTENING.1

ALL-ENRAGED, a. Highly enraged. NWAD ALL-ENRAGED.1

ALL-FLAMING, a. Flaming in all directions. NWAD ALL-FLAMING.1

ALL-FOOLS-DAY, n. The first of April. NWAD ALL-FOOLS-DAY.1

ALL-FORGIVING, a. Forgiving or pardoning all. NWAD ALL-FORGIVING.1

ALL-FOURS, n. [all and four.] NWAD ALL-FOURS.1

A game at cards, played by two or four persons; so called from the possession of the four honors, by one person, who is then said to have all fours. NWAD ALL-FOURS.2

To go on all fours is to move or walk on four legs, or on the two legs and two arms. NWAD ALL-FOURS.3

ALL-GIVER, n. The giver of all things. NWAD ALL-GIVER.1

ALL-GOOD, a. Completely good. NWAD ALL-GOOD.1

ALL-GOOD, n. The popular name of the plant Good-Henry, or English Mercury, Chenopodium bonus Henricus. NWAD ALL-GOOD.2

ALL-GRACIOUS, a. Perfectly gracious. NWAD ALL-GRACIOUS.1

ALL-GUIDING, a. Guiding or conducting all things. NWAD ALL-GUIDING.1

ALL-HAIL, ex. NWAD ALL-HAIL.1

All health; a phrase of salutation, expressing a wish of all health or safety to the person addressed. NWAD ALL-HAIL.2

ALL-HALLOW, ALL-HALLOWS, n. NWAD ALL-HALLOW.1

All Saints day, the first of November; a feast dedicated to all the saints in general NWAD ALL-HALLOW.2