English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
Dictionary
Alose
(n.)
The European shad (Clupea alosa); -- called also allice shad
or allis shad. The name is sometimes applied to the American shad
(Clupea sapidissima). See Shad.
Alouatte
(n.)
One of the several species of howling monkeys of South
America. See Howler, 2.
Aloud
(adv.)
With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly.
Alow
(adv.)
Below; in a lower part.
Alp
(n.)
Fig.: Something lofty, or massive, or very hard to be
surmounted.
Alp
(n.)
A very high mountain. Specifically, in the plural, the highest
chain of mountains in Europe, containing the lofty mountains of
Switzerland, etc.
Alp
(n.)
A bullfinch.
Alpaca
(n.)
An animal of Peru (Lama paco), having long, fine, wooly
hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of the llama.
Alpaca
(n.)
Wool of the alpaca.
Alpaca
(n.)
A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca,
often mixed with silk or with cotton.
Alpen
(a.)
Of or pertaining to the Alps.
Alpenstock
(n.)
A long staff, pointed with iron, used in climbing the
Alps.
Alpestrine
(a.)
Pertaining to the Alps, or other high mountains; as,
Alpestrine diseases, etc.
Alpha
(n.)
The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to A, and
hence used to denote the beginning.
Alphabet
(n.)
The simplest rudiments; elements.
Alphabet
(v. t.)
To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to
arrange alphabetically.
Alphabet
(n.)
The letters of a language arranged in the customary
order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of
written language.
Alphabetarian
(n.)
A learner of the alphabet; an abecedarian.
Alphabetic
(a.)
Alt. of Alphabetical
Alphabetical
(a.)
Pertaining to, furnished with, expressed by, or in
the order of, the letters of the alphabet; as, alphabetic characters,
writing, languages, arrangement.