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Alt. of Alfa grass

A plant (Macrochloa tenacissima) of North Africa; also, its fiber, used in paper making.

The lucern (Medicago sativa); -- so called in California, Texas, etc.

An alloy of nickel and silver electroplated with silver.

An ensign; a standard bearer.

A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.

The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California.

An edible marine fish of California (Rhacochilus toxotes).

In the open-air.

A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervae, etc.

of Alga

Pertaining to, or like, algae.

The Carob, a leguminous tree of the Mediterranean region; also, its edible beans or pods, called St. John's bread.

The Honey mesquite (Prosopis juliflora), a small tree found from California to Buenos Ayres; also, its sweet, pulpy pods. A valuable gum, resembling gum arabic, is collected from the tree in Texas and Mexico.

Alt. of Algaroth

A term used for the Powder of Algaroth, a white powder which is a compound of trichloride and trioxide of antimony. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic, purgative, and diaphoretic.

The agglutinated seeds and husks of the legumes of a South American tree (Inga Marthae). It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye.

Alt. of Algates

Always; wholly; everywhere.

By any or means; at all events.