{ } n. Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Able to enter into alliance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the genus Allium, or garlic, onions, leeks, etc.; having the smell or taste of garlic or onions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. aliaunce, OF. aliance, F. alliance, fr. OF. alier, F. allier. See Ally, and cf. LL. alligantia. ] 1. The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state; an alliance between France and England. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity. [ 1913 Webster ]

The alliance of the principles of the world with those of the gospel. C. J. Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

The alliance . . . between logic and metaphysics. Mansel. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The persons or parties allied. Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Connection; affinity; union; confederacy; confederation; league; coalition. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To connect by alliance; to ally. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. alliant, p. pr. ] An ally; a confederate. [ Obs. & R. ] Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Attractive power; attractiveness. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. alliciens, p. pr. of allicere to allure; ad + lacere to entice. ] That attracts; attracting. -- n. That attracts. [ Rare or Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. alligatus, p. p. of alligare. See Ally. ] To tie; to unite by some tie. [ 1913 Webster ]

Instincts alligated to their nature. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. alligatio. ] 1. The act of tying together or attaching by some bond, or the state of being attached. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arith.) A rule relating to the solution of questions concerning the compounding or mixing of different ingredients, or ingredients of different qualities or values. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The rule is named from the method of connecting together the terms by certain ligature-like signs. Alligation is of two kinds, medial and alternate; medial teaching the method of finding the price or quality of a mixture of several simple ingredients whose prices and qualities are known; alternate, teaching the amount of each of several simple ingredients whose prices or qualities are known, which will be required to make a mixture of given price or quality. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. el lagarto the lizard (el lagarto de Indias, the cayman or American crocodile), fr. L. lacertus, lacerta, lizard. See Lizard. ] 1. (Zool.) A large carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South America. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mech.) Any machine with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator; as, (a) (Metal Working) a form of squeezer for the puddle ball; (b) (Mining) a rock breaker; (c) (Printing) a kind of job press, called also alligator press. [ 1913 Webster ]

Alligator apple (Bot.), the fruit of the Anona palustris, a West Indian tree. It is said to be narcotic in its properties. Loudon. --
Alligator fish (Zool.), a marine fish of northwestern America (Podothecus acipenserinus). --
Alligator gar (Zool.), one of the gar pikes (Lepidosteus spatula) found in the southern rivers of the United States. The name is also applied to other species of gar pikes. --
Alligator pear (Bot.), a corruption of Avocado pear. See Avocado. --
Alligator snapper,
Alligator tortoise,
Alligator turtle (Zool.), a very large and voracious turtle (Macrochelys lacertina) inhabiting the rivers of the southern United States. It sometimes reaches the weight of two hundred pounds. Unlike the common snapping turtle, to which the name is sometimes erroneously applied, it has a scaly head and many small scales beneath the tail. This name is sometimes given to other turtles, as to species of Trionyx. --
Alligator wood, the timber of a tree of the West Indies (Guarea Swartzii). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. [ Because of the resemblance to the pattern on the skin of an alligator. ] to form shallow cracks in a reticulated pattern on the surface, or in a coating on the surface, of an object. [ PJC ]

adj. 1. 1 having cracks in a reticulated pattern, giving an appearance reminiscent of alligator hide; -- said of a surface coating, e.g., of paint, varnish, or glazing
Syn. -- cracked [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. 1. 1 small very elongate sea poachers.
Syn. -- Aspidophoroides monopterygius [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 the family of reptiles comprising the alligators, and including the caimans.
Syn. -- family Alligatoridae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. (Mech.) A kind of pipe wrench having a flaring jaw with teeth on one side. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. See Alignment. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. ad + lineatus, p. p. of lineare to draw a line. ] To align. [ R. ] Herschel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a small genus of chiefly American herbs.
Syn. -- genus Allionia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. (Zool.) The European shad (Clupea vulgaris); allice shad. See Alose. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a European shad, (Alosa alosa).
Syn. -- allice shad, allis shad, allice [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. allisio, fr. allidere, to strike or dash against; ad + laedere to dash against. ] The act of dashing against, or striking upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The boisterous allision of the sea. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To compose alliteratively; also, to constitute alliteration. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To employ or place so as to make alliteration. Skeat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ad + litera letter. See Letter. ] The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: - [ 1913 Webster ]

Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved
His vastness. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The recurrence of the same letter in accented parts of words is also called alliteration. Anglo-Saxon poetry is characterized by alliterative meter of this sort. Later poets also employed it. [ 1913 Webster ]

In a somer seson whan soft was the sonne,
I shope me in shroudes as I a shepe were. P. Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as, alliterative poetry. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ly, adv. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who alliterates. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., garlic. ] (bot.) A genus of plants, including the onion, garlic, leek, chive, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a genus of chiefly Old World herbs.
Syn. -- genus Anagallis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Opposed to what is Gallic or French. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Such as to appall; as, an appalling accident. -- Ap*pall"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. 1. 1 the olfactory cortex of the cerebrum.
Syn. -- paleocortex [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n.; pl. Ballistæ [ L. ballista, balista, fr. Gr. ba`llein to throw. ] An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ballista. Cf. Balister. ] A crossbow. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to ballistics{ 2 }, or to a projectile in a gravitational field. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

3. frenzied; very angry; -- used mostly in the phrase
go ballistic. [ Colloq. ] [ PJC ]

Ballistic pendulum, an instrument consisting of a mass of wood or other material suspended as a pendulum, for measuring the force and velocity of projectiles by means of the arc through which their impact impels it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A rocket-propelled missile of long range which is guided only during the powered portion of its flight, which usually takes only a small part of the total flight time; -- contrasted with guided missile. Ballistic missiles are sometimes referred to by their range, such as an
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) or an
intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM). [ PJC ]

n. [ Cf. F. balistique. See Ballista. ] The science or art of hurling missile weapons by the use of an engine. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The science treating the motion of projectiles in flight, especially when they are in free fall within the earth's gravitational field. [ PJC ]

3. The study of the characteristics of a cartridge fired from a firearm, and of the processes occurring during the discharge of a firearm. [ PJC ]

4. The division within a police department which studies the characteristics of cartridges fired from a firearm; the ballistics department. The characteristics of the weapons and bullets fired may be used as evidence in criminal investigations. [ PJC ]

n. [ See Ballista. ] (Chem.) A smokeless powder containing equal parts of soluble nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ LL. ] See Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + metallic: cf. F. bimétallique. ] 1. Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency. [ archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Composed of two different metals; formed of two parts, each of a different metal; as, bimetallic wire; bimetallic thermometer, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. bimétalisme. ] The legalized use of two metals (as gold and silver) in the currency of a country, at a fixed relative value; -- in opposition to monometallism. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The words bimétallisme and monométallisme are due to M. Cernuschi [ 1869 ]. Littré. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An advocate of bimetallism. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or pertaining to bimetallism.
Syn. -- bimetallic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. any of several herbs of the genus Browallia cultivated for their blue or violet or white flowers.
Syn. -- bush violet. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L.caballinus, fr. caballus a nag. Cf. Cavalier. ] Of or pertaining to a horse. -- n. Caballine aloes. [ 1913 Webster ]

caballine aloes, an inferior and impure kind of aloes formerly used in veterinary practice; -- called also horse aloes. --
Caballine spring, the fountain of Hippocrene, on Mount Helicon; -- fabled to have been formed by a stroke from the foot of the winged horse Pegasus. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. callidus, fr. callere to be thick-skinned, to be hardened, to be practiced, fr. callum, callus, callous skin, callosity, callousness. ] Characterized by cunning or shrewdness; crafty. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. calliditas. ] Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Her eagly-eyed callidity. C. Smart. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman. [ 1913 Webster ]