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  • English Word Allocate Definition To localize.
  • English Word Allocation Definition The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement.
  • English Word Allocation Definition An allotment or apportionment; as, an allocation of shares in a company.
  • English Word Allocation Definition The admission of an item in an account, or an allowance made upon an account; -- a term used in the English exchequer.
  • English Word Allocatur Definition "Allowed." The word allocatur expresses the allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer.
  • English Word Allochroic Definition Changeable in color.
  • English Word Allochroite Definition See Garnet.
  • English Word Allochroous Definition Changing color.
  • English Word Allocution Definition The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in words.
  • English Word Allocution Definition An address; a hortatory or authoritative address as of a pope to his clergy.
  • English Word Allod Definition See Allodium.
  • English Word Allodial Definition Pertaining to allodium; freehold; free of rent or service; held independent of a lord paramount; -- opposed to feudal; as, allodial lands; allodial system.
  • English Word Allodial Definition Anything held allodially.
  • English Word Allodialism Definition The allodial system.
  • English Word Allodialist Definition One who holds allodial land.
  • English Word Allodially Definition By allodial tenure.
  • English Word Allodiary Definition One who holds an allodium.
  • English Word Allodium Definition 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.
  • English Word Allogamous Definition Characterized by allogamy.
  • English Word Allogamy Definition Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species; cross-fertilization.
  • English Word Allogeneous Definition Different in nature or kind.
  • English Word Allograph Definition A writing or signature made by some person other than any of the parties thereto; -- opposed to autograph.
  • English Word Allomerism Definition Variability in chemical constitution without variation in crystalline form.
  • English Word Allomerous Definition Characterized by allomerism.
  • English Word Allomorph Definition Any one of two or more distinct crystalline forms of the same substance; or the substance having such forms; -- as, carbonate of lime occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite.
  • English Word Allomorph Definition A variety of pseudomorph which has undergone partial or complete change or substitution of material; -- thus limonite is frequently an allomorph after pyrite.
  • English Word Allomorphic Definition Of or pertaining to allomorphism.
  • English Word Allomorphism Definition The property which constitutes an allomorph; the change involved in becoming an allomorph.
  • English Word Allonge Definition A thrust or pass; a lunge.
  • English Word Allonge Definition A slip of paper attached to a bill of exchange for receiving indorsements, when the back of the bill itself is already full; a rider.