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- English Word Alert Definition Watchful; vigilant; active in vigilance.
- English Word Alert Definition Brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.
- English Word Alert Definition An alarm from a real or threatened attack; a sudden attack; also, a bugle sound to give warning.
- English Word Alertly Definition In an alert manner; nimbly.
- English Word Alertness Definition The quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.
- English Word Alestake Definition 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."
- English Word Aletaster Definition See Aleconner.
- English Word Alethiology Definition The science which treats of the nature of truth and evidence.
- English Word Alethoscope Definition An instrument for viewing pictures by means of a lens, so as to present them in their natural proportions and relations.
- English Word Aleuromancy Definition Divination by means of flour.
- English Word Aleurometer Definition An instrument for determining the expansive properties, or quality, of gluten in flour.
- English Word Aleurone Definition An albuminoid substance which occurs in minute grains ("protein granules") in maturing seeds and tubers; -- supposed to be a modification of protoplasm.
- English Word Aleuronic Definition Having the nature of aleurone.
- English Word Aleutian Definition Alt. of Aleutic
- English Word Aleutic Definition Of or pertaining to a chain of islands between Alaska and Kamtchatka; also, designating these islands.
- English Word Alevin Definition Young fish; fry.
- English Word Alew Definition Halloo.
- English Word Alewife Definition A woman who keeps an alehouse.
- English Word Alewife Definition 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.
- English Word Alewives Definition of Alewife
- English Word Alewives Definition of Alewife
- English Word Alexanders Definition Alt. of Alisanders
- English Word Alexandrian Definition Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt; as, the Alexandrian library.
- English Word Alexandrian Definition Applied to a kind of heroic verse. See Alexandrine, n.
- English Word Alexandrine Definition Belonging to Alexandria; Alexandrian.
- English Word Alexandrine Definition A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables.
- English Word Alexipharmac Definition Alt. of Alexipharmacal
- English Word Alexipharmacal Definition Alexipharmic.
- English Word Alexipharmic Definition Alt. of Alexipharmical
- English Word Alexipharmic Definition An antidote against poison or infection; a counterpoison.