The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as f and g in the following line: NWAD ALLITERATION.2
Fields ever fresh, and groves forever green. NWAD ALLITERATION.3
The act of putting one thing to another; hence its usual sense is the admission of an article of account, or an allowance made upon an account; a term used in the English Exchequer. [See Allow.] NWAD ALLOCATION.2
1. The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words. NWAD ALLOCUTION.2
2. An address; a formal address; as, of a General to his troops; a Roman term rarely used in English. NWAD ALLOCUTION.3
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. In England, there is no allodial land, all land being held of the king; but in the United States, most lands are allodial. NWAD ALLODIUM.2
1. A pass with a sword; a thrust made by stepping forward and extending the arm; a term used in fencing, often contracted into lunge. NWAD ALLONGE.2
2. A long rein, when a horse is trotted in the hand. NWAD ALLONGE.3
[See the correct word, Halloo.] NWAD ALLOO.2
A mineral of a blue, and sometimes of a green or brown color, which occurs massive, or in imitative shapes. It gelatinizes in acids. NWAD ALLOPHANE.2
Allophane is a variety of clay, occurring in amorphous, botryoidal or reniform masses. NWAD ALLOPHANE.3
1. To divide or distribute by lot. NWAD ALLOT.2
2. To distribute, or parcel out in parts or portions; or to distribute a share to each individual concerned. NWAD ALLOT.3
3. To grant, as a portion; to give, assign or appoint in general. NWAD ALLOT.4
Let every man be contented with that which providence allots to him. NWAD ALLOT.5
1. That which is allotted; a share, part, or portion granted or distributed; that which is assigned by lot, or by the act of God. NWAD ALLOTMENT.2
2. A part, portion or place appropriated. NWAD ALLOTMENT.3
In a field, there is an allotment for olives. NWAD ALLOTMENT.4
1. To grant, give or yield; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a pension. NWAD ALLOW.2
2. To admit; as, to allow the truth of a proposition; to allow a claim. NWAD ALLOW.3
3. To admit; to own or acknowledge; as, to allow the right of the President to displace officers. NWAD ALLOW.4
4. To approve, justify or sanction. NWAD ALLOW.5
Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke 11:48; Romans 7:15. NWAD ALLOW.6
5. To afford, or grant as a compensation; as, to allow a dollar a day for wages. NWAD ALLOW.7
6. To abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for tare or leakage. NWAD ALLOW.8
7. To permit; to grant license to; as, to allow a son to be absent. NWAD ALLOW.9
1. The act of allowing or admitting. NWAD ALLOWANCE.2
2. Permission; license; approbation; sanction; usually slight approbation. NWAD ALLOWANCE.3
3. Admission; assent to a fact or state of things; a granting. NWAD ALLOWANCE.4
4. Freedom from restraint; indulgence. NWAD ALLOWANCE.5
5. That which is allowed; a portion appointed; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, in seamen’s language, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short. NWAD ALLOWANCE.6
6. Abatement; deduction; as, to make an allowance for the inexperience of youth. NWAD ALLOWANCE.7
7. Established character; reputation; as, a pilot of approved allowance. Obs. NWAD ALLOWANCE.8
Distress compelled the captain of the ship to allowance his crew. NWAD ALLOWANCE.10
1. To reduce the purity of a metal, by mixing with it a portion of one less valuable; as, to alloy gold with silver, or silver with copper. NWAD ALLOY.2
2. To mix metals. NWAD ALLOY.3
3. To reduce or abate by mixture; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes. NWAD ALLOY.4
1. A baser metal mixed with a finer. NWAD ALLOY.6
2. The mixture of different metals; any metallic compound; this is its common signification in chimistry. NWAD ALLOY.7
3. Evil mixed with good; as, no happiness is without alloy. NWAD ALLOY.8
1. The act of alloying metals or the mixture of a baser metal with a finer, to reduce its purity; the act of mixing metals. NWAD ALLOYAGE.2
2. The mixture of different metals. NWAD ALLOYAGE.3
To refer to something not directly mentioned; to have reference; to hint at by remote suggestions; as, that story alludes to a recent transaction. NWAD ALLUDE.2
One who colors or paints upon paper or parchment, giving light and ornament to letters and figures. NWAD ALLUMINOR.2
This is now written limner. NWAD ALLUMINOR.3
To attempt to draw to; to tempt by the offer of some good, real or apparent; to invite by something flattering or acceptable; as, rewards allure men to brave danger. Sometimes used in a bad sense, to allure to evil; but in this sense entice is more common. In Hosea 2:14, allure is used in its genuine sense; 2 Peter 2:18, in the sense of entice. NWAD ALLURE.2
1. Drawing; tempting; inviting by some real or apparent good. NWAD ALLURING.2
2. a. Inviting; having the quality of attracting or tempting. NWAD ALLURING.3
A reference to something not explicitly mentioned; a hint; a suggestion, by which something is applied or understood to belong to that which is not mentioned, by means of some similitude which is perceived between them. NWAD ALLUSION.2
1. Pertaining to alluvion; added to land by the wash of water. NWAD ALLUVIAL.2
2. Washed ashore or down a stream; formed by a current of water; as, alluval ores; alluvial soil. NWAD ALLUVIAL.3
1. The insensible increase of earth on a shore, or bank of a river, by the force of water, as by a current or by waves. The owner of the land thus augmented has a right to the alluvial earth. NWAD ALLUVION.2
2. A gradual washing or carrying of earth or other substances to a shore or bank; the earth thus added. NWAD ALLUVION.3
3. The mass of substances collected by means of the action of water. NWAD ALLUVION.4
In this alluvium was found the entire skeleton of a whale. NWAD ALLUVION.5
1. To unite, or form a relation, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league or confederacy. NWAD ALLY.2
2. To form a relation by similitude, resemblance or friendship. Note. This word is more generally used in the passive form, as families are allied by blood; or reciprocally, as princes ally themselves to powerful states. NWAD ALLY.3
1. A prince or state united by treaty or league; a confederate. NWAD ALLY.5
The allies of Rome were slaves. NWAD ALLY.6
2. One related by marriage or other tie; but seldom applied to individuals, except to princes in their public capacity. NWAD ALLY.7
A book or collection of problems in astronomy and geometry, drawn up by Ptolemy. The same title has been given to other works of the like kind. NWAD ALMAGEST.2
A small book or table, containing a calendar of days, weeks and months, with the times of the rising of the sun and moon, changes of the moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, stated terms of courts, observations on the weather, etc. for the year ensuing. this calendar is sometimes published on one side of a single sheet, and called a sheet-almanack. NWAD ALMANACK.2
The Baltic nations formerly engraved their calendars on pieces of wood, on swords, helves of axes, and various other utensils, and especially on walking sticks. many of these are preserved in the cabinets of the curious. they are called by different nations, rimstocks, primstories, runstocks, runstaffs, clogs, etc. NWAD ALMANACK.3
The characters used are generally the Runic or Gothic. NWAD ALMANACK.4
Possessing all power; omnipotent; being of unlimited might; being of boundless sufficiency; appropriately applied to the Supreme Being. NWAD ALMIGHTY.2
1. The fruit of the almond tree; an ovate, compressed nut, perforated in the pores. It is either sweet or bitter. [It is popularly pronounced ammond.] NWAD ALMOND.2
2. The tonsils, two glands near the basis of the tongue, are called almonds, from their resemblance to that nut; vulgularly, but improperly, called the almonds of the ears, as they belong to the throat. NWAD ALMOND.3
3. In Portugal, a measure by which wine is sold, twenty-six of which make a pipe. NWAD ALMOND.4
[But in Portuguese it is written almude.] NWAD ALMOND.5
4. Among lapidaries, almonds signify pieces of rock crystal, used in adorning branch candlesticks, so called from their resemblance to this fruit. NWAD ALMOND.6
An officer whose duty is to distribute charity or alms. By the ancient canons, every monastery was to dispose of a tenth of its income in alms to the poor, and all bishops were obliged to keep an almoner. This title is sometimes given to a chaplain; as, the almoner of a ship or regiment. NWAD ALMONER.2
The Lord Almoner, or Lord High Almoner, in England, is an ecclesiastical officer, generally a bishop, who has the forfeiture of al deodands, and the goods of self-murderers, which he is to distribute to the poor. NWAD ALMONER.3
The Grand Almoner, in France, is the first ecclesiastical dignitary, and has the superintendence of hospitals. NWAD ALMONER.4
The place where the almoner resides, or where the alms are distributed. NWAD ALMONRY.2
Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. Acts 26:28. NWAD ALMOST.2
Any thing given gratuitously to relieve the poor, as money, food, or clothing, otherwise called charity. NWAD ALMS.2
A lame man was laid daily to ask an alms. Acts 3:2, 3. NWAD ALMS.3
Cornelius gave much alms to the people. Acts 10:2. NWAD ALMS.4
Tenure by free alms, or frank-almoign, in England, is that by which the possessor is bound to pray for the soul of the donor, whether dead or alive; a tenure by which most of the ancient monasteries and religious houses in England held their lands, as do the parochial clergy, and many ecclesiastical and eleemosynary establishments at this day. Land thus held was free from all rent or other service. NWAD ALMS.5
The Vulgate translates it ligna thyina, and the Septuagint, wrought-wood; others, ebony, bravil or pine, and the Rabbins render it coral. It was used for musical instruments, stair cases, etc. NWAD ALMUG.2
The thyinum is the citron tree, from Mauritania, much esteemed by the ancients for its fragrance and beauty. The almug, almugim, or algumin, or simply gummin is most probably a gummy wood, and perhaps may be the Shittim, often mentioned in Scripture. See 1 Kings 10:11. NWAD ALMUG.3
A measuring by the ell. NWAD ALNAGE.2
In botany, a genus of monogynian hexanders, of many species; all natives of warm climates, and most of them, of the southern part of Africa. NWAD ALOE.2
Among the Mohammedans, the aloe is a symbolic plant, especially in Egypt; and every one who returns from a pilgrimage to Mecca, hangs it over his street door, as a token that he has performed the journey. NWAD ALOE.3
In Africa, the leaves of the Guinea aloe are made into durable ropes. Of one species are made fishing lines, bow strings, stockings and hammocs. The leaves of another species hole rain water. NWAD ALOE.4
Aloes is a stimulating stomachic purgative; when taken in small doses, it is useful for people of a lax habit and sedentary life. NWAD ALOES.2
1. On high; in the air; high above the ground; as, the eagle soars aloft. NWAD ALOFT.2
2. In seamen’s language, in the top; at the mast head; or on the higher yards or rigging. Hence on the upper part, as of a building. NWAD ALOFT.3
In church history, a sect of ancient heretics, who denied Jesus Christ to be the Logos and consequently rejected the gospel of St. John. NWAD ALOGIANS.2
A disproportionate nutrition of the parts of the body, as when one part receives more or less nourishment and growth than another. NWAD ALOGOTROPHY.2
1. Single; solitary; without the presence of another; applied to a person or thing. NWAD ALONE.2
It is not good that man should be alone. Genesis 2:18. NWAD ALONE.3
[This adjective follows its noun.] NWAD ALONE.4
2. It is applied to two or more persons or things, when separate from others, in a place or condition by themselves; without company. NWAD ALONE.5
And when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples. Mark 4:34. NWAD ALONE.6
3. Only. NWAD ALONE.7
Thou whose name alone is Jehovah. Psalm 83:18. NWAD ALONE.8
This sense at first appears to be adverbial, but really is not; whose name single, solitary, without another, is Jehovah. NWAD ALONE.9
To let alone is to suffer to rest; to forbear molesting or meddling with; to suffer to remain in its present state. Alone, in this phrase, is an adjective, the word to which it refers being omitted; let me alone; let them alone; let it alone; that is, suffer it to be unmolested, or to remain as it is, or let it remain by itself. NWAD ALONE.10
1. By the length; lengthwise; in a line with the length; as, the troops marched along the bank of the river, or along the highway. 1 Samuel 6:12. NWAD ALONG.2
2. Onward; in a line, or with a progressive motion; as, a meteor glides along the sky; let us walk along. NWAD ALONG.3
All along signifies the whole length; through the whole distance; in the whole way or length. NWAD ALONG.4
Ishmael went forth, weeping all along as he went. Jeremiah 41:6; 1 Samuel 28:20. NWAD ALONG.5
Along with signifies in company; joined with; as, Go along with us. Sometimes with is omitted; NWAD ALONG.6
Come then, my friend, my genius, come along. NWAD ALONG.7
Along side, in seamen’s language, that is, by the length or in a line with the side, signifies side by side, as by another ship or by the side of a wharf. NWAD ALONG.8
Along shore is by the shore or coast, lengthwise, and near the shore. NWAD ALONG.9
Lying along is lying on the side, or pressed down by the weight of sail. NWAD ALONG.10
1. At a distance, but within view, or at a small distance, in a literal sense; as, to stand aloof. NWAD ALOOF.2
2. In a figurative sense, not concerned in a design; declining to take any share, implying circumspection; keeping at a distance from the point, or matter in debate. NWAD ALOOF.3
A disease, called the fox-evil or scurf, which is a falling off of the hair, from any part of the body. NWAD ALOPECY.2
Loudly; with a loud voice, or great noise. NWAD ALOUD.2
Cry aloud, spare not. Isaiah 58:1. NWAD ALOUD.3
A high mountain. The name, it is supposed, was originally given to mountains whose tops were covered with snow, and hence appropriately applied to the mountains of Swisserland; so that by Alps is generally understood the latter mountains. But geographers apply the name to any high mountains. NWAD ALP.2
The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to A, and used to denote first or beginning. NWAD ALPHA.2
I am Alpha and Omega. Revelation 1:8, 11. NWAD ALPHA.3
As a numeral, it stands for one. It was formerly used also to denote chief; as, Plato was the Alpha of the wits. NWAD ALPHA.4
The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters which form the elements of speech. NWAD ALPHABET.2