have some reference to a thing, without the direct mention of it; to hint at; to insinuate. It is used of persons; as, be alludes to an old story; or of things, as, the lampoon alludes to his mother's faults. These speeches of Jerom and Chrysostom do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use. Hooker. True it is, that many things of this nature be alladed unto, yea, many things declared. Hooker. Then just proportions were taken, and every thing placed by weight and measure: and this I doubt not was that artificial structure here alluded to. Burnet's Theory. ALLU'MINOR. n. s. [allumer, Fr. to light.] One who colours or paints upon paper or parchment; because he gives graces, light, and ornament, to the letters or figures coloured. Corvell. To ALLU'RE. v. a. [leurer, Fr. Looren, Dutch; belænen, Sax.] To entice to any thing whether good or bad; to draw toward any thing by enticement. Unto laws that men make for the benefit of men, it hath seemed always needful to add rewards, which may more allure unto good, than any hardness deterreth from it; and punishments, which may more deter from evil, than any sweetness thereto allureth. Hooker. The golden sun, in splendour likest heav'n, Allur'd his eye. Milton's Paradise Lost. Each flatt'ring hope, and each alluring joy. Lyttleton. ALLU'RE. n. s. [from the verb allure.] Something set up to entice birds, or other things, to it. We now write lure. The rather to train them to his allure, he told them both often, and with a vehement voice, how they were over-topped and trodden down by gentlemen. Hayward. ALLUREMENT. n. 3. [from allure.] That which allures, or has the force of alluring; enticement; temptation of pleasure. Against allurement, custom, and a world Offended; fearless of reproach, and scorn, Or violence. Paradise Lost. -Adam, by his wife's allurement fell. Paradise Regained. To shun th' allurement is not hard To minds resolv'd, forewarn'd, and well prepar'd; But wond'rous difficult, when once beset, To struggle through the straits, and break th involving net. Dryden. ALLURER. n. s. [from allure. The person that allures; enticer; inveigler. ALLURINGLY. adv. [from allure.] In an alluring manner; enticingly. ALLURINGNESS. n. s. [from alluring.] The quality of alluring or enticing; invitation; temptation by proposing pleasure. ALLUSION. n. s. [allusio, Lat.] That which is spoken with reference to something supposed to be already kdown, and therefore not expressed ; a hint; an implication. It has the particle to. Here are manifest allusions and footsteps of the dissolution of the earth, as it was in the deluge, and will be in its last ruin. Burnet. This last allusion gall'd the panther more, Because indeed it rubb'd upon the sore. Dryd. Expressions now out of use, allusions to customs lost, to us, and various particularities, must needs continue several passages in the dark. Locke. ALLU'SIVE. adj. [alludo, allusum, Lat.] Hinting at something not fully expressed. Where the expression in one place is plain, and the sense affixed to it agreeable to the proper force of the words, and no negative objection requires us to depart from it; and the expression, in the other, is figurative or allusive, and the doctrine deduced from it liable to great objections; it is reasonable, in this latter place, to restrain the extent of the figure and allusion to a consistency with the former. Rogers' Sermons. ALLU'SIVELY. adv. [from allusive.] In an allusive manner : by implication; by insinuation. The Jewish nation, that rejected and cruci fied him, within the compass of one generation, were, according to his prediction, destroyed by the Romans, and preyed upon by those eagles (Matt. xxiv. 28.), by which, allusively, are noted the Roman armies, whose ensign was the eagle. Hammond. ALLU'SIVENESS. n. s. [from allusive.] The quality of being allusive. ALLU'VION. n. s. [alluvio, Lat.] 1. The carrying of any thing to something else by the motion of the water. 2. The thing carried by water to some. thing else. The civil law gives the owner of land a right to that increase which arises from alluvion, which is defined an insensible increment, brought by the water. Corvell. ALLUVIOUS. adj. [from alluvion.] That is carried by water to another place, and lodged upon something else. To ALLY'. v. a. [allier, Fr.] I. To unite by kindred, friendship, or confederacy. All these septs are allied to the inhabitants of the North, so as there is no hope that they will ever serve faithfully against them. Spenser. Wants, frailties, passions, closer still ally The common int'rest, or endear the tye." Pope. To the sun ally'd, From him they draw the animating fire. Thomson. 2. To make a relation between two things, by similitude, or resemblance, or any other means. Two lines are indeed remotely allied to Vir gil's sense; but they are too like the tenderness of Ovid. Dryden. ALLY'. n. s. [allié, Fr.] One united by some means of connexion; as, marriage, friendship, confederacy. He in court stood on his own feet; for the most of his allies rather leaned upon him than shored him. Wutton. We could hinder the accession of Holland to France, either as subjects, with great immuni ties for the encouragement of trade, or as an inferiour and dependentally under their protection. Temple. ALMACANTAR. n. s. [An Arabick word, written variously by various authors; by D'Herbelot, almocantar; by others, almucantar.] A circle drawn parallel to the horizon. It is generally used in the plural, and means a series of parallel circles drawn through the several degrees of the meridian. ALMACA'NTAR'S STAFF. n. s. An instrument commonly made of pear-tree or box, with an arch of fifteen degrees, used to take observations of the sun about the time of its rising and setting, in order to find the amplitude, and consequently the variation of the compass. Chambers. A'LMANACK. n. s. [Derived, by some, from the Arabick al, and manah, Heb. to count, or compute; by others, from al, Arabick, and μr, a month, or pavexòs, the course of the months; by others, from a Teutonick original, al, and maan, the moon, an account of every moon, or month all of them are probable ] A calendar; a book in which the revolutions of the seasons, with the return of feasts and fasts, is noted for the ensuing year. It will be said, this is an almanack for the old year; all bath been well; Spain hath not assailed This kingdom. Bacon. This astrologer made his almanack give a tolerable account of the weather, by a direct inversion of the common_prognosticators. Government of the Tongue. Beware the woman too, and shut her sight, Who in these studies does herself delight; By whom a greasy almanack is borne, With often handling, like chaft amber worn. Dryden. I'll have a fasting almanack printed on purpose for her use. Dryden's Spanish Friar. ALMANDINE. n. s. [Fr. almandina, Ital.] A ruby coarser and lighter than the oriental, and nearer the colour of the granate. Dict. ALMIGHTINESS. n. s. [from almighty.] Unlimited power; omnipotence; one of the attributes of God. It serveth to the world for a witness of his almightiness, whom we outwardly honour with the chiefest of outward things. Hooker. In creating and making existent the world universal, by the absolute act of his own word, God shewed his power and almightiness. Raleigh. In the wilderness, the bittern and the stork, the unicorn and the elk, live upon his provisions, and revere his power, and feel the force of his almightiness. Taylor. ALMIGHTY. adj. [from all and mighty.] Of unlimited power; omnipotent. The Lord appeared unto Abraham, and said unto him, I am the almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect." Genesis. He wills you in the name of God almighty, That you divest yourself, and lay apart The borrow'd glories, that by gift of heav'n, By law of nature and of nations, 'long To him and to his heirs. Shakspeare. A'LMOND. n. s. [amand, Fr. derived by Menage from amandala, a word in low Latin; by others, from Allemand, a German, supposing that almonds come to France from Germany. The nut of the almond tree, either sweet or bitter. Pound an almond, and the clear white colour will be altered into a dirty one, and the sweet taste into an oily one. Locke. A'LMOND TREE. n. s. [amygdalus, Lat.] It has leaves and flowers very like those of the peach tree, but the fruit is longer and more compressed; the outer green coat is thinner and drier when ripe, and the shell is not so rugged. Millar Mark well the flow'ring almonds in the wood; ALMONDS OF THE THROAT, or TỔNSILS, called improperly Almonds of the ears, are two round glands placed on the sides of the basis of the tongue, under the common membrane of the fauces; each of them has a large oval sinus, which opens into the fauces, and in it are a great number of lesser ones, which discharge themselves through the great sinus of a mucous and slippery matter into the fauces, larynx, and œsophagus, for the moistening and lubricating those parts. When the sophagus muscle acts, it compresses the almonds, and they frequently are the occasion of a sore throat. Quincy. The tonsils, or almonds of the ears, are also frequently swelled in the king's evil; which tumour may be very well reckoned a species of it. Wiseman's Surgery. A'LMOND-FURANCE, or AʼLMAN-FURNACE, called also the Saveep, is a peculiar kind of furnace used in refining, to separate metals from cinders and other foreign substances. Chambers. A'LMONER, or A'LMNER. n. s. [eleemosynarius, Lat.] The officer of a prince, or other person, employed in the distribution of charity. I enquired for an almoner; and the general fame has pointed out your reverence as the worthiest man, Dryden. A'LMONRY. 7. s. [from almoner.] The place where the almoner resides or where the alms are distributed. ALMO'ST. adv. [from all and most; that is, most part of all. Skinner.] Nearly; well nigh; in the next degree to the whole, or to universality. Who is there almost, whose mind, at some time or other, love or anger, fear or grief, has not so fastened to some clog, that it could not turn itself to any other object? Locke. There can be no such thing or notion, as an almost infinite; there can be nothing next or second to an omnipotent God. Bentley's Sermons Atlas becomes unequal to his freight, And almost faints beneath the glowing weight. Addison. ALMS. n. s. [in Saxon, elmer, from eleemosyna, Lat.] What is given gratuitously in relief of the poor. It has no singular. My arm'd knees, Which bow'd but in my stirrup, bend like his That bath receiv'd an alms. Shakspeare. The poor beggar hath a just demand of an alms from the rich man; who is guilty of fraud, Injustice, and oppression, if he does not afford relief according to his abilities. Swift. ALMS-BASKET. n. s. [from alms and basket.] The basket in which provisions are put to be given away. There sweepings do as well As the best order'd meal; For who the relish of these guests will fit, Ben Jonson We'll stand up for our properties, was the beggar's song that lived upon the alms-basket. L'Estrange's Fables A'LMSDEED. n. s. [from alms and deed.] An act of charity; a charitable gift. This woman was full of good works, and almsdeeds, which she did. Acts. Hard-favour'd Richard, where art thou? Thou art not here: murder is thy almsdeed; Petitioner for blood thou ne'er put'st back. Shak. AʼLMS-GIVER.n.s.[from alms and giver.] He that gives alms; he that supports others by his charity. He endowed many religious foundations, and yet was he a great alms-giver in secret, which theweth that his works in publick were dedicated rather to God's glory than his own. Bacon. A'LMSHOUSE. .s. [from alms and house.] A house devoted to the reception and support of the poor; a hospital for the poor. The way of providing for the clergy by tithes, the device of almshouses for the poor, and the sorting out of the people into parishes, are manifest. Hooker. And to relief of lazars, and weak age Of indigent faint souls, past corporal toil, A hundred almsbouses right well supplied. Shaksp. Many penitents, after the robbing of temples and other rapine, build an hospital, or almshouse, out of the ruins of the church, and the spoils of widows and orphans. L'Estrange. Behold yon almshouse, neat, but void of state, Where age and want sit smiling at the gate. Pope. AL'MSMAN. 8. ¿. [from alms and man.] YOL I. A man who lives upon alms! who is supported by charity. I'll give my jewels for a set of beads My gorgeous palace for a hermitage; My gay apparel for an almıman's gown. Shaksp A'LMUG-TREE. n. s. A tree mentioned in scripture. Of its wood were made musical instruments, and it was used also in rails, or in a staircase. The Rabbins generally render it coral; others ebony, brazil, or pine. In the Septuagint it is translated wrought wood, and the Vulgate, Ligna Thyina. But coral could never answer the purposes of the almu gium; the pine-tree is too common in Judea to be imported from Ophir; and the Thyinum, or citron-tree, much esteemed by the ancients for its fragrance and beauty, came from Mauritania. By the wood almugim, or algumim, or simply gummim, taking al for a kind of article, may be understood oily and gummy sorts of wood, and particularly the trees which produce gum ammoniac, or gum arabic; and is, perhaps, the same with the Shittim wood mentioned by Moses. Calmet. And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug-trees and precious trees. 1 Kings. ALNAGAR, A'LNAGER, or A'LNEGER. n. s. [from alnage.] A measurer by the ell; a sworn officer, whose business formerly was to inspect the assize of woollen cloth, and to fix the seals appointed upon it for that purpose; but there are now three officers belonging to the regulation of cloth-manufactures, the searcher, measurer, and alneger. Dicta A'LNAGE. n. s. [from aulnage, or aunage, Fr.] Ell-measure, or rather the measur ing by the ell or yard. A'LNIGHT. n. s. [from all and night.] Dict. A service which they call alright, is a great cake of wax, with the wick in the midst; where by it cometh to pass, that the wick fetcheth the nourishment farther of Bacons A'LOES. n. s. [D', as it is supposed.] Aterm applied to three different things. 1. A precious wood, used in the East for perfumes, of which the best sort is of higher price than gold, and was the most valuable present given by the king of Siam, in 1686, to the king of France. It is called Tambac, and is the heart, or innermost part, of the aloe tree; the next part to which is called Calembac, which is sometimes imported into Europe, and, though of inferiour value to the Tambac, is much esteemed: the part next the back is termed, by the Portu guese, Pao d'aquila, or eagle-wood; but some account the eagle-wood not the outer part of the Tambac, but another species. Our knowledge of this wood is yet very imperfect. Savary. 2. A tree which grows in hot countries, and even in the mountains of Spain. 3. A medicinal juice, extracted, not from the odoriferous, but the common aloes tree, by cutting the leaves, and exposing the juice that drops from them to the sun. It is distinguished into Socotorine, and Caballine or horse aloes: the first is so called from Socotora; the second, because, being coarser, it ought to be confined to the use of farriers. It is a warm and strong cathartick. ALOE'TICAL. adj. [from aloes.] Consisting chiefly of aloes. It may be excited by aloetical, scammoniate, or acrimonious medicines. Wiseman's Surgery. ALOE'TICK. n. s. [from aloes.] Any medicine is so called, which chiefly consists of aloes. Quincy. ALO'FT. adv. [loffter, to lift up, Dan. Loft, air, Icelandish; so that aloft is, into the air.] On high; above; in the air: a word used chiefly in poetry. For I have read in stories oft, That love has wings, and soars aloft. Suckling. ALO'FT. prep. Above. The great luminary That from his lordly eye keep distance due, Dispenses light from far. Milton's Par. Lost. A'LOGY. n. s. [ahoy.] Unreasonableness; absurdity. Dict. ALO'NE. adj. [alleen, Dutch; from al and een, or one; that is, single.] 1. Without another. The quarrel toucheth none but us alone; Betwixt ourselves let us decide it then. Sbaks. If by a mortal hand my father's throne Could be defended, 'twas by mine alone. Dryd. God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being. 2. Without company; solitary. Bentley. Eagles we see fly alone, and they are but sheep which always herd together. Sidney. Alone, for other creature in this place, Living, or lifeless, to be found was none. Milton. I never durst in darkness be alone. Dryden. ALONE. adv. 1. This word is seldom used but with the word let, if even then it be an adverb. It implies sometimes an ironical prohibition, forbidding to help a man who is able to manage the affair himself. Let us alone to guard Corioli, If they set down before 's; 'fore they remove, Bring up your army. Shakspeare. Let you alone, cunning artificer; Ben Jonson. 2. To forbear; to leave undone. His client stole it, but he had better have let it alone; for he lost his cause by his jest. Addison. ALONG. adv. [au longue, Fr.] 1. At length. 2. 3. 4. Some rowl a mighty stone; some laid along,, And bound with burning wires, on spokes of wheels are hung. Dryden. Through any space measured lengthwise. A firebrand, carried along, leaveth a train of light behind it. Bacon's Natural History. Where Ufens glides along the lowly lands, Or the black water of Pomptina stands. Dryden. Throughout; in the whole with all prefixed. Solomon, all along in his Proverbs, gives the title of fool to a wicked man. Tillotson. They were all along a cross, untoward sort of people. South. Joined with the partiele with, in company; joined with. I your commission will forthwith dispatch, And he to England shall along with you. Shaks. Hence, then! and evil go with thee along, Thy offspring, to the place of evil, Hell. Milton. Religious zeal is subject to an excess, and to a defect, when something is mingled with it which it should not have; or when it wants something that ought to go along with it. Sprat. 5. Sometimes with is understood. Command thy slaves: my free-born soul disdains A tyrant's curb, and restive breaks the reins. Take this along; and no dispute shall rise (Though mine the woman) for my ravish'd prize. Dryden 6. Forward; onward. In this sense it is derived from allons, French. Come then, my friend, my genius, come along, Thou master of the poet and the song. Pope. ALO'NGST. adv. [a corruption, as it seems, from along.] Along; through the length. The Turks did keep strait watch and ward in all their ports alongst the sea coast. Knoller ALO'OF. adv. [all off, that is, quite off] 1. At a distance: with the particle from. It generally implies a small distance, such as is within view or observation. Then bade the knight this lady yede aloof, And to an hill herself withdraw aside, From whence she might behold the battle's proof, And else be safe from danger far descried. Fairy Q As next in worth, Came singly where he stood, on the bare strand, While the promiscuous crowd stood yet aloef. Milton's Paradisé Lest. The noise approaches, tho' our palace stood Aloof from streets, encompass'd with a wood. Dryden. 2. Applied to persons, it often insinuates caution and circumspection. Turn on the bloody hounds with heads of steel, And make the cowards stand aloof at bay. Shaks. Going northwards, aloof, as long as they had any doubt of being pursued; at last, when they were out of reach, they turned and crossed the ocean to Spain. Baces. The king would not, by any means, enter the city, until he had aloof seen the cross set up noun. To range in the order of the alphabet. adj. [from alphabet; upon the greater tower of Granada, whereby it ALPHABETICAL alphabetique, Fr.] In became christian ground. Bacon. Two pots stood by a river, one of brass, the other of clay. The water carried them away; the earthen vessel kept aloof from t' other. L'Estrange's Fables. The strong may fight aloof: Ancæus try'd His force too near, and by presuming died. Dryden. 3. In a figurative sense, it is used to import art or cunning in conversation, by which a man holds the principal question at a distance. Nor do we find him forward to be sounded; But with a crafty madness keeps aloof, When we would bring him on to some confession Of his true state. Shakspeare's Hamlet. 4. It is used metaphorically of persons that will not be seen in a design. It is necessary the queen join; for, if she stand aleef, there will be still suspicions: it being a received opinion, that she hath a great interest in the king's favour and power. Suckling. 3. It is applied to things not properly belonging to each other. Love's not love, When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from th' entire point. Shakspeare. ALOUD. adv. [from a and loud.] Loudly; with a strong voice; with a great noise. Strangled he lies! yet seems to cry aloud, To warn the mighty, and instruct the proud; That of the great, neglecting to be just, Heav'n in a moment makes a heap of dust. Waller. Then heav'n's high monarch thund'red thrice aloud, And thrice he shook aloft a golden cloud. Dryd. ALo'w.adv. [from a and low.] In a low place; not aloft. And now alow, and now aloft they fly, As borne through air, and seem to touch the sky. Dryden. ALPHA.n.s. The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to our A; therefore used to signify, the first. I am alpba and omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. Revelations. ALPHABET. n.s. [from üλpa, alpha, and Bra, beta, the two first letters of the Greeks.] The order of the letters, or elements of speech. Thou shalt not sigh, Nor wink, nor nod, nor kneel, nor make a sign, But I of these will rest an alphabet, And by still practice learn to known thy meaning. Shakspeare. The letters of the alphabet, formed by the several motions of the mouth, and the great variety of syllables composed of letters, and formed with almost equal velocity, and the endless number of words capable of being framed out of the siphabet, either of more syllables, or of one, are wonderful. Holder. Taught by their nurses, little children get This saying sooner than their alphabet. Dryden. To AʼLPHABET. v. a. [from alphabet, ALPHABETICK. the order of the alphabet; according to the series of letters. I have digested in an alphabetical order all the Counties, corporations, and boroughs in Great Britain, with their respective tempers. Swift. ALPHABETICALLY. adv. [from alphabetical.] In an alphabetical manner; according to the order of the letters. I had once in my thoughts to contrive a gram mar, more than I can now comprise in short hints; and a dictionary, alphabetically contain ing the words of the language, which the deaf person is to learn. Holder's Elements of Speech. ALREADY. adv. [from all and ready.] At this present time, or at some time past: opposed to futurity; as, Will be come soon? He is bere already. Will it be done? It has been done already. Touching our uniformity, that which hath been already answered, may serve for answer. Hooker. Dryden. You warn'd me still of loving two; Can I love him, already loving you? See, the guards from yon far eastern hill Already move, no longer stay afford; High in the air they wave the flaming sword, Your signal to depart. Dryden. Methods for the advancement of piety, are in the power of a prince limited like ours, by a strict execution of the laws already in force. Swift. Methinks already I your tears survey, Already hear the horrid things they say, Aready see you a degraded toast, And all your honour in a whisper lost! Pope. ALS. adv. [als, Dutch.] Also; likewise. Out of use. Sad remembrance now the prince amoves With fresh desire his voyage to pursue; Als Una earn'd her travel to renew. Fairy Queen. A'LSO. adv. [from all and so.] I. In the same manner; likewise. In these two, no doubt, are contained the causes of the great deluge, as according to Moses, so also according to necessity; for our world affords no other treasures of water. Burnet. 2. Also is sometimes nearly the same with and, and only conjoins the members of the sentence. God do so to me, and more also. 1 Samuel. A'LTAR. n. s. [altare, Lat. It is observed by Junius, that the word altar is received, with christianity, in all the European languages; and that altare is used by one of the Fathers, as appro priated to the christian worship, in opposition to the are of gentilism.] 1. The place where offerings to heaven are laid. The goddess of the nuptial bed, Tir'd with her vain devotions for the dead, Resolv'd the tainted hand should be repell'd, Which incense offer'd, and her altar held. Dryd 2. The table in christian churches where the communion is administered. |