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- English Word Alferes Definition An ensign; a standard bearer.
- English Word Alfet Definition A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.
- English Word Alfilaria Definition The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California.
- English Word Alfione Definition An edible marine fish of California (Rhacochilus toxotes).
- English Word Alfresco Definition In the open-air.
- English Word Alga Definition A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervae, etc.
- English Word Algae Definition of Alga
- English Word Algal Definition Pertaining to, or like, algae.
- English Word Algaroba Definition The Carob, a leguminous tree of the Mediterranean region; also, its edible beans or pods, called St. John's bread.
- English Word Algaroba Definition The Honey mesquite (Prosopis juliflora), a small tree found from California to Buenos Ayres; also, its sweet, pulpy pods. A valuable gum, resembling gum arabic, is collected from the tree in Texas and Mexico.
- English Word Algarot Definition Alt. of Algaroth
- English Word Algaroth Definition A term used for the Powder of Algaroth, a white powder which is a compound of trichloride and trioxide of antimony. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic, purgative, and diaphoretic.
- English Word Algarovilla Definition The agglutinated seeds and husks of the legumes of a South American tree (Inga Marthae). It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye.
- English Word Algate Definition Alt. of Algates
- English Word Algates Definition Always; wholly; everywhere.
- English Word Algates Definition By any or means; at all events.
- English Word Algates Definition Notwithstanding; yet.
- English Word Algazel Definition The true gazelle.
- English Word Algebra Definition That branch of mathematics which treats of the relations and properties of quantity by means of letters and other symbols. It is applicable to those relations that are true of every kind of magnitude.
- English Word Algebra Definition A treatise on this science.