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- English Word Alunogen Definition A white fibrous mineral frequently found on the walls of mines and quarries, chiefly hydrous sulphate of alumina; -- also called feather alum, and hair salt.
- English Word Alure Definition A walk or passage; -- applied to passages of various kinds.
- English Word Alutaceous Definition Leathery.
- English Word Alutaceous Definition Of a pale brown color; leather-yellow.
- English Word Alutation Definition The tanning or dressing of leather.
- English Word Alvearies Definition of Alveary
- English Word Alveary Definition A beehive, or something resembling a beehive.
- English Word Alveary Definition The hollow of the external ear.
- English Word Alveated Definition Formed or vaulted like a beehive.
- English Word Alvei Definition of Alveus
- English Word Alveolar Definition Of, pertaining to, or resembling, alveoli or little cells, sacs, or sockets.
- English Word Alveolary Definition Alveolar.
- English Word Alveolate Definition Deeply pitted, like a honeycomb.
- English Word Alveole Definition Same as Alveolus.
- English Word Alveoli Definition of Alveolus
- English Word Alveoliform Definition Having the form of alveoli, or little sockets, cells, or cavities.
- English Word Alveolus Definition A cell in a honeycomb.
- English Word Alveolus Definition A small cavity in a coral, shell, or fossil
- English Word Alveolus Definition A small depression, sac, or vesicle, as the socket of a tooth, the air cells of the lungs, the ultimate saccules of glands, etc.
- English Word Alveus Definition The channel of a river.
- English Word Alvine Definition Of, from, in, or pertaining to, the belly or the intestines; as, alvine discharges; alvine concretions.
- English Word Alway Definition Always.
- English Word Always Definition At all times; ever; perpetually; throughout all time; continually; as, God is always the same.
- English Word Always Definition Constancy during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals; invariably; uniformly; -- opposed to sometimes or occasionally.
- English Word Alyssum Definition A genus of cruciferous plants; madwort. The sweet alyssum (A. maritimum), cultivated for bouquets, bears small, white, sweet-scented flowers.
- English Word Am Definition The first person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mode, present tense. See Be.
- English Word Amability Definition Lovableness.
- English Word Amacratic Definition Amasthenic.
- English Word Amadavat Definition The strawberry finch, a small Indian song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill.
- English Word Amadou Definition A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter.