English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Allochroite
(n.)
See Garnet.
Allochroous
(a.)
Changing color.
Allocution
(n.)
The act or manner of speaking to, or of addressing in
words.
Allocution
(n.)
An address; a hortatory or authoritative address as of
a pope to his clergy.
Allod
(n.)
See Allodium.
Allodial
(a.)
Pertaining to allodium; freehold; free of rent or
service; held independent of a lord paramount; -- opposed to feudal;
as, allodial lands; allodial system.
Allodial
(a.)
Anything held allodially.
Allodialism
(n.)
The allodial system.
Allodialist
(n.)
One who holds allodial land.
Allodially
(adv.)
By allodial tenure.
Allodiary
(n.)
One who holds an allodium.
Allodium
(n.)
Freehold estate; land which is the absolute property of
the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being
subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is
thus opposed to feud.
Allogamous
(a.)
Characterized by allogamy.
Allogamy
(n.)
Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from
another of the same species; cross-fertilization.
Allogeneous
(a.)
Different in nature or kind.
Allograph
(n.)
A writing or signature made by some person other than
any of the parties thereto; -- opposed to autograph.
Allomerism
(n.)
Variability in chemical constitution without variation
in crystalline form.
Allomerous
(a.)
Characterized by allomerism.
Allomorph
(n.)
A variety of pseudomorph which has undergone partial or
complete change or substitution of material; -- thus limonite is
frequently an allomorph after pyrite.
Allomorph
(n.)
Any one of two or more distinct crystalline forms of the
same substance; or the substance having such forms; -- as, carbonate of
lime occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite.