Word Meanings - ANSERIFORMES - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A division of birds including the geese, ducks, and closely allied forms.
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- ALLICIENT
That attracts; attracting. -- n. - ALLINEATION; ALINEEATION
Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young. - ALLITERAL
Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration. - DIVISIONARY
Divisional. - DIVISIONALLY
So as to be divisional. - ALLITERATOR
One who alliterates. - ALLIED
United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally. - ALLICE; ALLIS
The European shad ; allice shad. See Alose. - ALLIGATION
A rule relating to the solution of questions concerning the compounding or mixing of different ingredients, or ingredients of different qualities or values. Note: The rule is named from the method of connecting together the terms by certain - ALLITERATE
To compose alliteratively; also, to constitute alliteration. - ALLIGATE
To tie; to unite by some tie. Instincts alligated to their nature. Sir M. Hale. - ALLIGNMENT
See ALIGNMENT - INCLUDED
Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them. - ALLIGATOR WRENCH
A kind of pipe wrench having a flaring jaw with teeth on one side. - ALLIANCE
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; - DIVISIONAL
That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes , planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints. - ALLIUM
A genus of plants, including the onion, garlic, leek, chive, etc. - ALLISION
The act of dashing against, or striking upon. The boisterous allision of the sea. Woodward. - ALLIANT
An ally; a confederate. Sir H. Wotton. - ALLITERATIVE
Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as, alliterative poetry. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ly, adv. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ness, n. - GALLIASS
See GALLEASS - DALLIANCE
1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination. - KAKARALLI
A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle. - SCALLION
A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc. - CORALLIGENOUS
producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble. - REALLIANCE
A renewed alliance. - IMPALLID
To make pallid; to blanch. Feltham. - HEMEROCALLIS
A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily. - HAEMATOCRYSTALLIN
See HEMATOCRYSTALLIN - CRYSTALLIZATION
The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and sructure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized. 2. The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations. Note: The systems of - MISALLIED
Wrongly allied or associated. - BALLISTER
A crossbow. - UNFALLIBLE
Infallible. Shak. - METALLIC
Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic - SEMICRYSTALLINE
Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter. - HALLIDOME
See HALIDOM - CRYSTALLIZE
To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form. - BALLISTA
An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles.