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- English Word All Fools' Day Definition The first day of April, a day on which sportive impositions are practiced.
- English Word All fours Definition All four legs of a quadruped; or the two legs and two arms of a person.
- English Word All hail Definition All health; -- a phrase of salutation or welcome.
- English Word All Saints Definition Alt. of All Saints'
- English Word All Saints' Definition The first day of November, called, also, Allhallows or Hallowmas; a feast day kept in honor of all the saints; also, the season of this festival.
- English Word All Souls' Day Definition The second day of November; a feast day of the Roman Catholic church, on which supplications are made for the souls of the faithful dead.
- English Word All-a-mort Definition See Alamort.
- English Word All-hail Definition To salute; to greet.
- English Word All-possessed Definition Controlled by an evil spirit or by evil passions; wild.
- English Word Alla breve Definition With one breve, or four minims, to measure, and sung faster like four crotchets; in quick common time; -- indicated in the time signature by /.
- English Word Allah Definition The name of the Supreme Being, in use among the Arabs and the Mohammedans generally.
- English Word Allanite Definition A silicate containing a large amount of cerium. It is usually black in color, opaque, and is related to epidote in form and composition.
- English Word Allantoic Definition Pertaining to, or contained in, the allantois.
- English Word Allantoid Definition Alt. of Allantoidal
- English Word Allantoid Definition A membranous appendage of the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles, -- in mammals serving to connect the fetus with the parent; the urinary vesicle.
- English Word Allantoidal Definition Of or pertaining to the allantois.
- English Word Allantoidea Definition The division of Vertebrata in which the embryo develops an allantois. It includes reptiles, birds, and mammals.
- English Word Allantoin Definition A crystalline, transparent, colorless substance found in the allantoic liquid of the fetal calf; -- formerly called allantoic acid and amniotic acid.
- English Word Allantois Definition Alt. of Allantoid
- English Word Allatrate Definition To bark as a dog.
- English Word Allay Definition To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions.
- English Word Allay Definition To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; as, to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity.
- English Word Allay Definition To diminish in strength; to abate; to subside.
- English Word Allay Definition Alleviation; abatement; check.
- English Word Allay Definition Alloy.
- English Word Allay Definition To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate.
- English Word Allayed Definition of Allay
- English Word Allayer Definition One who, or that which, allays.
- English Word Allaying Definition of Allay
- English Word Allayment Definition An allaying; that which allays; mitigation.