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- English Word Albertite Definition A bituminous mineral resembling asphaltum, found in the county of A. /bert, New Brunswick.
- English Word Albertype Definition A picture printed from a kind of gelatine plate produced by means of a photographic negative.
- English Word Albescence Definition The act of becoming white; whitishness.
- English Word Albescent Definition Becoming white or whitish; moderately white.
- English Word Albicant Definition Growing or becoming white.
- English Word Albication Definition The process of becoming white, or developing white patches, or streaks.
- English Word Albicore Definition A name applied to several large fishes of the Mackerel family, esp. Orcynus alalonga. One species (Orcynus thynnus), common in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, is called in New England the horse mackerel; the tunny.
- English Word Albification Definition The act or process of making white.
- English Word Albigenses Definition Alt. of Albigeois
- English Word Albigensian Definition Of or pertaining to the Albigenses.
- English Word Albigeois Definition A sect of reformers opposed to the church of Rome in the 12th centuries.
- English Word Albiness Definition A female albino.
- English Word Albinism Definition The state or condition of being an albino: abinoism; leucopathy.
- English Word Albinistic Definition Affected with albinism.
- English Word Albino Definition A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes is deficient or in a morbid state. An albino has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from the absence of chlorophyll.
- English Word Albinoism Definition The state or condition of being an albino; albinism.
- English Word Albinos Definition of Albino
- English Word Albinotic Definition Affected with albinism.
- English Word Albion Definition An ancient name of England, still retained in poetry.
- English Word Albite Definition A mineral of the feldspar family, triclinic in crystallization, and in composition a silicate of alumina and soda. It is a common constituent of granite and of various igneous rocks. See Feldspar.
- English Word Albolith Definition A kind of plastic cement, or artificial stone, consisting chiefly of magnesia and silica; -- called also albolite.
- English Word Alborak Definition The imaginary milk-white animal on which Mohammed was said to have been carried up to heaven; a white mule.
- English Word Albugineous Definition Of the nature of, or resembling, the white of the eye, or of an egg; albuminous; -- a term applied to textures, humors, etc., which are perfectly white.
- English Word Albugines Definition of Albugo
- English Word Albugo Definition Same as Leucoma.
- English Word Album Definition A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc.
- English Word Album Definition A register for visitors' names; a visitors' book.
- English Word Album Definition A blank book, in which to insert autographs sketches, memorial writing of friends, photographs, etc.
- English Word Album Graecum Definition Dung of dogs or hyenas, which becomes white by exposure to air. It is used in dressing leather, and was formerly used in medicine.
- English Word Albumen Definition The white of an egg.