Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 41
Alcyones (n. pl.) (Zool.) The kingfishers.
Alcyonic (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Alcyonaria.
Alcyonium (n.) (Zool.) A genus of fleshy Alcyonaria, its polyps somewhat resembling flowers with eight fringed rays. The term was also formerly used for certain species of sponges.
Alcyonoid (a.) (Zool.) Like or pertaining to the Alcyonaria.
Alcyonoid (n.) A zoophyte of the order Alcyonaria.
Alday (adv.) Continually. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Aldebaran (n.) (Astron.) A red star of the first magnitude, situated in the eye of Taurus; the Bull's Eye. It is the bright star in the group called the Hyades.
Now when Aldebaran was mounted high Above the shiny Cassiopeia's chair. -- Spenser.
Aldebaran (n.) The brightest star in Taurus.
Aldehyde (n.) (Chem.) 【化】乙醛 A colorless, mobile, and very volatile liquid obtained from alcohol by certain processes of oxidation.
Aldehyde (n.) (Chem.) Any compound having the group -CHO. Methyl aldehyde, the simplest aldehyde, is more commonly called formaldehyde, H-CHO, and acetic aldehyde is now more commonly called acetaldehyde. The higher aldehydes may be solids. A reducing sugar typically contains the aldehyde group.
Note: The aldehydes are intermediate between the alcohols and acids, and differ from the alcohols in having two less hydrogen atoms in the molecule, as common aldehyde (called also acetaldehyde, acetic aldehyde or ethyl aldehyde), C2H4O; methyl aldehyde (called also formaldehyde), CH2O.
Aldehyde ammonia (Chem.), A compound formed by the union of aldehyde with ammonia.
Aldehyde (n.) Any of a class of highly reactive chemical compounds; used in making resins and dyes and organic acids.
Aldehydic (a.) (Chem.) Of or pertaining to aldehyde; as, aldehydic acid. -- Miller.
Aldehydic (a.) Of or related to or containing aldehydes.
Alder (n.) A tree, usually growing in moist land, and belonging to the genus Alnus. The wood is used by turners, etc.; the bark by dyers and tanners. In the U. S. the species of alder are usually shrubs or small trees.
Black alder. A European shrub ({Rhamnus frangula); Alder buckthorn.
Black alder. An American species of holly ({Ilex verticillata), bearing red berries. Alder
Alder (a.) Alt. of Aller.
Aller (a.) Of all; -- used in composition; as, alderbest, best of all, alderwisest, wisest of all. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. Alderfly
Alder (n.) Wood of any of various alder trees; resistant to underwater rot; used for bridges etc
Alder (n.) North temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the wood is rot-resistant [syn: alder, alder tree].
Alder, MT -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Montana
Population (2000): 116
Housing Units (2000): 69
Land area (2000): 2.013323 sq. miles (5.214482 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.013323 sq. miles (5.214482 sq. km)
FIPS code: 00850
Located within: Montana (MT), FIPS 30
Location: 45.324531 N, 112.108035 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Alder, MT
Alder
Alder-liefest (a.) Most beloved. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Aldermen (n. pl. ) of Alderman.
Alderman (n.) A senior or superior; a person of rank or dignity. [Obs.]
Note: The title was applied, among the Anglo-Saxons, to princes, dukes, earls, senators, and presiding magistrates; also to archbishops and bishops, implying superior wisdom or authority. Thus Ethelstan, duke of the East-Anglians, was called Alderman of all England; and there were aldermen of cities, counties, and castles, who had jurisdiction within their respective districts.
Alderman (n.) One of a board or body of municipal officers next in order to the mayor and having a legislative function. They may, in some cases, individually exercise some magisterial and administrative functions.
Alderman (n.) A member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council); "aldermen usually represent city wards."
Alderman. () An officer, generally appointed or elected in towns corporate, or cities, possessing various powers in different places.
Alderman. () The aldermen of the cities of Pennsylvania, possess all the powers and jurisdictions civil and criminal of justices of the peace. They are besides, in conjunction with the respective mayors or recorders, judges of the mayor's courts.
Alderman. () Among the Saxons there was an officer called the ealderman. ealdorman, or aldernwn, which appellation signified literally elderman. Like the Roman senator, he was so called, not on account of his age, but because of his wisdom and dignity, non propter oetatem sed propter sapientism et dignitatem. He presided with the bishop at the scyregemote, and was, ex officio, a member of the witenagemote. At one time he was a military officer, but afterwards his office was purely judicial.
Alderman. () There were several kinds of aldermen, as king's aldermen, aldermen of all England, aldermen of the county, aldermen of the hundred, &c., to denote difference of rank and jurisdiction.
Alderman, (n.) An ingenious criminal who covers his secret thieving with a pretence of open marauding.
Aldermancy (n.) The office of an alderman.
Aldermanic (a.) Relating to, becoming to, or like, an alderman; characteristic of an alderman.
Aldermanic (a.) Of or relating to or like an alderman [syn: aldermanic, aldermanly].
Aldermanity (n.) Aldermen collectively; the body of aldermen.
Aldermanity (n.) The state of being an alderman. [Jocular]
Aldermanlike (a.) Like or suited to an alderman.
Aldermanly (a.) Pertaining to, or like, an alderman.
Aldermanly (a.) Pertaining to, or like, an alderman. "An aldermanly discretion." -- Swift.
Aldermanly (a.) Of or relating to or like an alderman [syn: aldermanic, aldermanly].
Aldermanry (n.) The district or ward of an alderman.
Aldermanry (n.) The office or rank of an alderman. [R.] -- B. Jonson.
Aldermanship (n.) The condition, position, or office of an alderman. -- Fabyan.
Aldern (a.) Made of alder.
Alderney (n.) One of a breed of cattle raised in Alderney, one of the Channel Islands. Alderneys are of a dun or tawny color and are often called Jersey cattle. See Jersey, 3.
Aldine (a.) (Bibliog.) An epithet applied to editions (chiefly of the classics) which proceeded from the press of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been applied to certain elegant editions of English works.
Aldine, TX -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Texas
Population (2000): 13979
Housing Units (2000): 4403
Land area (2000): 8.094574 sq. miles (20.964850 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 8.094574 sq. miles (20.964850 sq. km)
FIPS code: 01696
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 29.919136 N, 95.379834 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Aldine, TX
Aldine
Ale (n.) （含酒精較一般啤酒多的）麥芽（啤）酒 [C] [U]；（英國鄉村的）麥芽酒節 [C] An intoxicating liquor made from an infusion of malt by fermentation and the addition of a bitter, usually hops.
Note: The word ale, in England and the United States, usually designates a heavier kind of fermented liquor, and the word beer a lighter kind. The word beer is also in common use as the generic name for all malt liquors.
Ale (n.) A festival in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk. "At wakes and ales." -- B. Jonson."On ember eves and holy ales." -- Shak.
Ale (n.) A general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume.
ALE, () Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts (org., Linux, user group)
ALE, () Atomic Layer Epitaxy (IC)
ALE, () Address Lifetime Expectation (org., IETF, IP)
ALE, () Application Link Enabling (R/3, SAP)
Aleak (adv. & a.) In a leaking condition.
Aleatory (a.) (Law) Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory contract. -- Bouvier.
Aleatory (a.) Dependent on chance; "the aleatory element in life."
Alebench (n.) A bench in or before an alehouse. -- Bunyan.
Aleberry (n.) A beverage, formerly made by boiling ale with spice, sugar, and sops of bread.
Their aleberries, caudles, possets. -- Beau. & Fl.
Alecithal (a.) (Biol.) Applied to those ova which segment uniformly, and which have little or no food yelk embedded in their protoplasm. --Balfour.
Aleconner (n.) Orig., an officer appointed to look to the goodness of ale and beer; also, one of the officers chosen by the liverymen of London to inspect the measures used in public houses. But the office is a sinecure. [Also called aletaster.] [Eng.]
Alecost (n.) (Bot.) The plant costmary, which was formerly much used for flavoring ale.
Compare: Costmary
Costmary (n.) (Bot.) A garden plant ({Chrysanthemum Balsamita) having a strong balsamic smell, and nearly allied to tansy. It is used as a pot herb and salad plant and in flavoring ale and beer. Called also alecost.
Alecost (n.) Tansy-scented Eurasian perennial herb with buttonlike yellow flowers; used as potherb or salad green and sometimes for potpourri or tea or flavoring; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum [syn: costmary, alecost, bible leaf, mint geranium, balsam herb, Tanacetum balsamita, Chrysanthemum balsamita].
Alectorides (n. pl.) (Zool.) A group of birds including the common fowl and the pheasants.
Alectoromachy (n.) Cockfighting.
Alectoromancy (n.) See Alectryomancy.
Compare: Alectryomancy
Alectryomancy (n.) Divination by means of a cock and grains of corn placed on the letters of the alphabet, the letters being put together in the order in which the grains were eaten. -- Amer. Cyc.
Alectryom'achy (n.) Cockfighting.
Alectryomancy (n.) Divination by means of a cock and grains of corn placed on the letters of the alphabet, the letters being put together in the order in which the grains were eaten. -- Amer. Cyc.
Alee (adv.) (Naut.) On or toward the lee, or the side away from the wind; the opposite of aweather. The helm of a ship is alee when pressed close to the lee side.
Hard alee, or Luff alee, An order to put the helm to the lee side.
Alee (adv.) On or toward the lee; "put the helm alee."
Alegar (n.) Sour ale; vinegar made of ale. -- Cecil.
Aleger (a.) Gay; cheerful; sprightly. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Alegge (v. t.) To allay or alleviate; to lighten. [Obs.]
That shall alegge this bitter blast. -- Spenser.
Alehoof (n.) Ground ivy ({Nepeta Glechoma).
Alehoof (n.) Trailing European aromatic plant of the mint family having rounded leaves and small purplish flowers often grown in hanging baskets; naturalized in North America; sometimes placed in genus Nepeta [syn: ground ivy, alehoof, field balm, gill-over-the-ground, runaway robin, Glechoma hederaceae, Nepeta hederaceae].
Alehouse (n.) A house where ale is retailed; hence, a tippling house. -- Macaulay.
Alehouse (n.) A tavern where ale is sold.
Ale-knight (n.) A pot companion. [Obs.]
Alemannic (a.) Belonging to the Alemanni, a confederacy of warlike German tribes.
Alemannic (n.) The language of the Alemanni.
The Swabian dialect . . . is known as the Alemannic. -- Amer. Cyc.
Alembic (n.) An apparatus formerly used in distillation, usually made of glass or metal. It has mostly given place to the retort and worm still.
Note: Used also metaphorically.
The alembic of a great poet's imagination. -- Brimley.
Alembic (n.) An obsolete kind of container used for distillation; two retorts connected by a tube.
Alembroth (n.) The salt of wisdom of the alchemists, a double salt composed of the chlorides of ammonium and mercury. It was formerly used as a stimulant. -- Brande & C.
Compare: Lace
Lace (n.) That which binds or holds, especially by being interwoven; a string, cord, or band, usually one passing through eyelet or other holes, and used in drawing and holding together parts of a garment, of a shoe, of a machine belt, etc.
His hat hung at his back down by a lace. -- Chaucer.
For striving more, the more in laces strong Himself he tied. -- Spenser.
Lace (n.) A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net. [Obs.] -- Fairfax.
Vulcanus had caught thee [Venus] in his lace. -- Chaucer.
Lace (n.) A fabric of fine threads of linen, silk, cotton, etc., often ornamented with figures; a delicate tissue of thread, much worn as an ornament of dress.
Our English dames are much given to the wearing of costly laces. -- Bacon.
Lace (n.) Spirits added to coffee or some other beverage. [Old Slang] -- Addison.
Alen[,c]on lace, A kind of point lace, entirely of needlework, first made at Alen[,c]on in France, in the 17th century. It is very durable and of great beauty and cost.
Bone lace, Brussels lace, etc. See under Bone, Brussels, etc.
Gold lace, or Silver lace, Lace having warp threads of silk, or silk and cotton, and a weft of silk threads covered with gold (or silver), or with gilt.
Lace leather, Thin, oil-tanned leather suitable for cutting into lacings for machine belts.
Lace lizard (Zool.), A large, aquatic, Australian lizard ({Hydrosaurus giganteus), allied to the monitors.
Lace paper, Paper with an openwork design in imitation of lace.
Lace piece (Shipbuilding), The main piece of timber which supports the beak or head projecting beyond the stem of a ship.
Lace pillow, and Pillow lace. See under Pillow.
Alencon lace () See under Lace.
Alength (adv.) At full length; lengthwise. -- Chaucer.
Alepidote (a.) (Zool.) Not having scales.
Alepidote (n.) A fish without scales.
Alepole (n.) A pole set up as the sign of an alehouse. [Obs.]
Alert (a.) 警惕的，警覺的 Watchful; vigilant; active in vigilance.
Alert (a.) Brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.
An alert young fellow. -- Addison.
Syn: Active; agile; lively; quick; prompt.
Alert (n.) (Mil.) 警惕，警戒，警報 An alarm from a real or threatened attack; a sudden attack; also, a
bugle sound to give warning. "We have had an alert." -- Farrow.
On the alert, On the lookout or watch against attack or danger;
ready to act.
Alert (a.) Engaged in or accustomed to close observation; "caught by a couple of alert cops"; "alert enough to spot the opportunity when it came"; "constantly alert and vigilant, like a sentinel on duty" [syn: {alert}, {watchful}] [ant: {unalert}, {unvigilant}, {unwatchful}].
Alert (a.) Quick and energetic; "a brisk walk in the park"; "a lively gait"; "a merry chase"; "traveling at a rattling rate"; "a snappy pace"; "a spanking breeze" [syn: {alert}, {brisk}, {lively}, {merry}, {rattling}, {snappy}, {spanking}, {zippy}].
Alert (a.) Mentally perceptive and responsive;"an alert mind"; "alert to the problems"; "alive to what is going on"; "awake to the dangers of her situation"; "was now awake to the reality of his predicament" [syn: {alert}, {alive(p)}, {awake(p)}].
Alert (n.) Condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action; "bombers were put on alert during the crisis" [syn: {alert}, {qui vive}].
Alert (n.) A warning serves to make you more alert to danger [syn: {alert}, {alerting}].
Alert (n.) An automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger [syn: {alarm}, {alert}, {warning signal}, {alarum}].
Alert (v.) 警惕 Warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness; "The empty house alarmed him"; "We alerted the new neighbors to the high rate of burglaries" [syn:{alarm}, {alert}].
Alertly (adv.) In an alert manner; nimbly.
Alertly (adv.) In mentally perceptive and responsive way; "she got through the day alertly, despite being on drugs."
Alertness (n.) The quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.
Alertness (n.) The process of paying close and continuous attention; "wakefulness, watchfulness, and bellicosity make a good hunter"; "vigilance is especially susceptible to fatigue" [syn: watchfulness, wakefulness, vigilance, alertness].
Alertness (n.) A state of readiness to respond; "alerting was indicated by the desynchronization of the EEG" [syn: alertness, alerting].
Alertness (n.) Lively attentiveness [syn: alertness, sharp-sightedness, on the qui vive].
Ale silver () A duty payable to the lord mayor of London by the sellers of ale within the city.
Alestake (n.) A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a "bush." [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Aletaster (n.) See Aleconner. [Eng.]
Compare: Aleconner
Aleconner (n.) Orig., An officer appointed to look to the goodness of ale and beer; also, one of the officers chosen by the liverymen of London to inspect the measures used in public houses. But the office is a sinecure. [Also called aletaster.] [Eng.]
Alethiology (n.) The science which treats of the nature of truth and evidence. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Alethoscope (n.) An instrument for viewing pictures by means of a lens, so as to present them in their natural proportions and relations.
Aleuromancy (n.) Divination by means of flour. -- Encyc. Brit.
Aleurometer (n.) An instrument for determining the expansive properties, or quality, of gluten in flour. -- Knight.
Aleurone (n.) (Bot.) An albuminoid substance which occurs in minute grains ("protein granules") in maturing seeds and tubers; -- supposed to be a modification of protoplasm.
Aleurone (n.) Granular protein in outermost layer of endosperm of many seeds or cereal grains.
Aleuronic (a.) (Bot.) Having the nature of aleurone. -- D. C. Eaton.
Aleuronic (a.) Of or related to aleurone.
Aleutian (n.) A member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands.
Syn: Aleut
Aleutian (a.) Alt. of Aleutic.
Aleutic (a.) Of or pertaining to a chain of islands between Alaska and Kamtchatka; also, designating these islands.
Aleutian (a.) Of or relating to the Aleut or their language or culture.
Aleutian (n.) A member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and
southwestern Alaska [syn: Aleut, Aleutian].
Alevin (n.) Young fish; fry.
Alew (n.) Halloo. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Alewives (n. pl. ) of Alewife.
Alewife (n.) A woman who keeps an alehouse. -- Gay.
Alewives (n. pl. ) of Alewife.
Alewife (n.) (Zool.) A North American fish ({Clupea vernalis) of the Herring family. It is called also ellwife, ellwhop, branch herring. The name is locally applied to other related species.
Alewife (n.) Flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams.
Alewife (n.) Shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus [syn: alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, Pomolobus pseudoharengus].
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (n.) 亞歷山大·鮑里斯·德菲弗爾·強森 Hon FRIBA ( born 19 June 1964) Is a British politician, writer, and former journalist who has served as prime minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the Conservative Party since July 2019. He has been member of Parliament (MP) for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015 and was MP for Henley from 2001 to 2008, He also served as mayor of London from 2008 to 2016 and foreign secretary from 2016 to 2018. Johnson identified as a one-nation conservative.
Alexanders (n.) Alt. of Alisanders.
Alisanders (n.) (Bot.) A name given to two species of the genus Smyrnium, formerly cultivated and used as celery now is; -- called also horse parsely.
Alexandrian (a.) 亞歷山大大帝的；亞歷山大港的；代表亞歷山大港之希臘文學、科學及哲學的 Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt; as, the Alexandrian library.
Alexandrian (a.) Applied to a kind of heroic verse. See {Alexandrine}, n.
Alexandrian (a.) Of or relating to Alexander the Great or his empire.
Alexandrian (n.) 亞歷山大港之居民；亞歷山大派之學者或神學家 A resident or native of Alexandria (especially Alexandria in Egypt).
Alexandrine (n.) A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables.
The needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. -- Pope.
Alexandrine (a.) Belonging to
Alexandria; Alexandrian. -- Bancroft.
Alexandrine (n.) (Prosody) A line of verse that
has six iambic feet.
Alexandrine (n.) Often capitalized: A line of verse of 12 syllables consisting regularly of 6 iambs with a caesura after the third iamb.
Alexipharmac (a. & n.) Alt. of Alexipharmacal.
Alexipharmacal (a. & n.) Alexipharmic. [Obs.] Alexipharmical
Alexipharmic, Alexipharmical (a.) (Med.) Of or relating to an alexipharmic or alexipharmac; warding off poison; antidotal; prophylactic. [obsolescent] Alexipharmac
Alexipharmic (n.) (Med.) An antidote against poison; a counterpoison. [archaic]
Alexipharmical (a.) Expelling or counteracting poison; antidotal.
Alexipharmic (n.) (Med.) An antidote against poison or infection; a counterpoison. [archaic]
Alexiterical, Alexipyretic (a.) (Med.) Serving to drive off fever; antipyretic; antifebrile. [archaic]
Alexiterical, Alexipyretic (n.) An antipyretic drug; a febrifuge. [archaic]
alexiterical
Alexiteric (a.) Alt. of Alexiterical.
Alexiterical (a.) (Med.) Resisting poison; obviating the effects of venom; alexipharmic.
Alexiteric (n.) (Med.) A preservative against contagious and infectious diseases, and the effects of poison in general. -- Brande & C. Alfa
Alfa (n.) Alt. of Alfa grass.
Alfa grass (n.) A plant ({Macrochloa tenacissima) of North Africa; also, its fiber, used in paper making.
Compare: Lucern
Lucern (n.) (Bot.) A leguminous plant ({Medicago sativa), having bluish purple cloverlike flowers, cultivated for fodder; -- called also alfalfa. [Written also lucerne.]
Alfalfa (n.) (Bot.) The lucern ({Medicago sativa); -- so called in California, Texas, etc.
Alfalfa (n.) Important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop [syn: alfalfa, lucerne, Medicago sativa].
Alfalfa (n.) Leguminous plant grown for hay or forage.
Alfalfa -- U.S. County in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 6105
Housing Units (2000): 2832
Land area (2000): 866.649527 sq. miles (2244.611876 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 14.794124 sq. miles (38.316603 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 881.443651 sq. miles (2282.928479 sq. km)
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 36.702841 N, 98.333427 W
Headwords:
Alfalfa
Alfalfa, OK
Alfalfa County
Alfalfa County, OK