All-hail All`-hail" transitive verb To salute; to greet. [ Poet.]

Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who all-hailed me "Thane of Cawdor."
Shak.

All-possessed All`-pos·sessed" adjective Controlled by an evil spirit or by evil passions; wild. [ Colloq.]

Alla breve Al`la bre"ve [ Italian , according to the breve .] (Old Church Music) With one breve , or four minims, to measure, and sung faster like four crotchets; in quick common time; -- indicated in the time signature by ....

Allah Al"lah noun [ contr. from the article al the + ilah God.] The name of the Supreme Being, in use among the Arabs and the Mohammedans generally.

Allanite Al"lan·ite noun [ From T. Allan , who first distinguished it as a species.] (min.) A silicate containing a large amount of cerium. It is usually black in color, opaque, and is related to epidote in form and composition.

Allantoic Al`lan·to"ic adjective [ Confer French allantoïque .] Pertaining to, or contained in, the allantois.

Allantoic acid . (Chemistry) See Allantoin .

Allantoid, Allantoidal Al·lan"toid, Al`lan·toid"al adjective [ Greek ... shaped like a sausage; ... sausage + ... form.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the allantois.

Allantoidea Al`lan·toid"e·a noun plural [ New Latin ] (Zoology) The division of Vertebrata in which the embryo develops an allantois. It includes reptiles, birds, and mammals.

Allantoin Al·lan"to·in noun (Chemistry) A crystalline, transparent, colorless substance found in the allantoic liquid of the fetal calf; -- formerly called allantoic acid and amniotic acid .

Allantois, Allantoid Al·lan"to·is, Al·lan"toid noun . (Anat.) A membranous appendage of the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles, -- in mammals serving to connect the fetus with the parent; the urinary vesicle.

Allatrate Al"la·trate intransitive verb [ Latin allatrare . See Latrate .] To bark as a dog. [ Obsolete] Stubbes.

Allay Al·lay" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Allayed ; present participle & verbal noun Allaying .] [ Middle English alaien , aleggen , to lay down, put down, humble, put an end to, Anglo-Saxon ālecgan ; ā- (cf. Goth. us- , German er- , orig. meaning out ) + lecgan to lay; but confused with old forms of allege , alloy , alegge . See Lay .] 1. To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions.

2. To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; as, to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity.

It would allay the burning quality of that fell poison.
Shak.

Syn. -- To alleviate; check; repress; assuage; appease; abate; subdue; destroy; compose; soothe; calm; quiet. See Alleviate .

Allay Al·lay" transitive verb To diminish in strength; to abate; to subside. "When the rage allays ." Shak.

Allay Al·lay" noun Alleviation; abatement; check. [ Obsolete]

Allay Al·lay" noun Alloy. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Allay Al·lay" transitive verb To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate. [ Archaic] Fuller.

Allayer Al·lay"er noun One who, or that which, allays.

Allayment Al·lay"ment noun An allaying; that which allays; mitigation. [ Obsolete]

The like allayment could I give my grief.
Shak.

Allecret Al"le·cret noun [ Old French alecret , halecret , hallecret .] A kind of light armor used in the sixteenth century, esp. by the Swiss. Fairholt.

Allect Al·lect" transitive verb [ Latin allectare , freq. of allicere , allectum .] To allure; to entice. [ Obsolete]

Allectation Al`lec·ta"tion noun [ Latin allectatio .] Enticement; allurement. [ Obsolete] Bailey.

Allective Al·lec"tive adjective [ Late Latin allectivus .] Alluring. [ Obsolete]

Allective Al·lec"tive noun Allurement. [ Obsolete] Jer. Taylor.

Alledge Al·ledge" transitive verb See Allege . [ Obsolete]

» This spelling, corresponding to abridge , was once the prevailing one.

Allegation Al`le·ga"tion noun [ Latin allegatio , from allegare , allegatum , to send a message, cite; later, to free by giving reasons; ad + legare to send, commission. Confer Allege and Adlegation .] 1. The act of alleging or positively asserting.

2. That which is alleged, asserted, or declared; positive assertion; formal averment

I thought their allegation but reasonable.
Steele.

3. (Law) A statement by a party of what he undertakes to prove, -- usually applied to each separate averment; the charge or matter undertaken to be proved.

Allege Al·lege" (ăl*lĕj") transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Alleged (-lĕjd"); present participle & verbal noun Alleging .] [ Middle English aleggen to bring forward as evidence, Old French esligier to buy, prop. to free from legal difficulties, from an assumed Late Latin exlitigare ; Latin ex + litigare to quarrel, sue (see Litigate ). The word was confused with Latin allegare (see Allegation ), and lex law. Confer Allay .] 1. To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact.

2. To cite or quote; as, to allege the authority of a judge. [ Archaic]

3. To produce or urge as a reason, plea, or excuse; as, he refused to lend, alleging a resolution against lending.

Syn. -- To bring forward; adduce; advance; assign; produce; declare; affirm; assert; aver; predicate.

Allege Al·lege" transitive verb [ See Allay .] To alleviate; to lighten, as a burden or a trouble. [ Obsolete] Wyclif.

Allegeable Al·lege"a·ble adjective Capable of being alleged or affirmed.

The most authentic examples allegeable in the case.
South.

Allegeance Al·lege"ance noun Allegation. [ Obsolete]

Allegement Al·lege"ment noun Allegation. [ Obsolete]

With many complaints and allegements .
Bp. Sanderson.

Alleger Al·leg"er noun One who affirms or declares.

Allegge Al·legge" transitive verb See Alegge and Allay . [ Obsolete]

Alleghenian Al`le·ghe"ni·an adjective Also Al`le*gha"ni*an (Biogeography) Pertaining to or designating the humid division of the Transition zone extending across the northern United States from New England to eastern Dakota, and including also most of Pennsylvania and the mountainous region as far south as northern Georgia.

Allegheny Al"le·ghe`ny adjective 1. Of or pertaining to the Allegheny Mountains, or the region where they are situated. Also Al"le*gha`ny

2. [ From the Allegheny River, Pennsylvania.] (Geol.) Pertaining to or designating a subdivision of the Pennsylvanian coal measure.

Allegiance Al·le"giance noun [ Middle English alegeaunce ; prefix a- + Old French lige , liege . The meaning was influenced by Latin ligare to bind, and even by lex , legis, law. See Liege , Ligeance .] 1. The tie or obligation, implied or expressed, which a subject owes to his sovereign or government; the duty of fidelity to one's king, government, or state.

2. Devotion; loyalty; as, allegiance to science.

Syn. -- Loyalty; fealty. -- Allegiance , Loyalty . These words agree in expressing the general idea of fidelity and attachment to the "powers that be." Allegiance is an obligation to a ruling power. Loyalty is a feeling or sentiment towards such power. Allegiance may exist under any form of government, and, in a republic, we generally speak of allegiance to the government, to the state, etc. In well conducted monarchies, loyalty is a warm-hearted feeling of fidelity and obedience to the sovereign. It is personal in its nature; and hence we speak of the loyalty of a wife to her husband, not of her allegiance . In cases where we personify, loyalty is more commonly the word used; as, loyalty to the constitution; loyalty to the cause of virtue; loyalty to truth and religion, etc.

Hear me, recreant, on thine allegiance hear me!
Shak.

So spake the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found, . . .
Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified,
His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal.
Milton.

Allegiant Al·le"giant adjective Loyal. Shak.

Allegoric, Allegorical Al`le·gor"ic, Al`le·gor"ic·al adjective [ French allégorique , Latin allegorius , from Greek .... See Allegory .] Belonging to, or consisting of, allegory; of the nature of an allegory; describing by resemblances; figurative. "An allegoric tale." Falconer. "An allegorical application." Pope.

Allegorical being . . . that kind of language which says one thing, but means another.
Max Miller.

Allegorist Al"le·go·rist noun [ Confer French allegoriste .] One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory. Hume.

Allegorization Al`le·gor"i·za"tion noun The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense.

Allegorize Al"le·go·rize transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Allegorized ; present participle & verbal noun Allegorizing .] [ Confer F. allégoriser , from Latin allegorizare .] 1. To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.

2. To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to allegorize it.

Allegorize Al"le·go·rize transitive verb To use allegory. Holland.

Allegorizer Al"le·go·ri`zer noun One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist.

Allegory Al"le·go·ry noun ; plural Allegories [ Latin allegoria , Greek ..., description of one thing under the image of another; ... other + ... to speak in the assembly, harangue, ... place of assembly, from ... to assemble: confer French allégorie .] 1. A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.

2. Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an emblem.

3. (Paint. & Sculpt.) A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured.

Syn. -- Metaphor; fable. -- Allegory , Parable . "An allegory differs both from fable and parable , in that the properties of persons are fictitiously represented as attached to things, to which they are as it were transferred. . . . A figure of Peace and Victory crowning some historical personage is an allegory . "I am the Vine, ye are the branches" [ John xv. 1-6 ] is a spoken allegory . In the parable there is no transference of properties. The parable of the sower [ Matt. xiii. 3-23 ] represents all things as according to their proper nature. In the allegory quoted above the properties of the vine and the relation of the branches are transferred to the person of Christ and His apostles and disciples." C. J. Smith.

An allegory is a prolonged metaphor. Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" and Spenser's "Faërie Queene" are celebrated examples of the allegory .

Allegresse Al`le`gresse" noun [ French allégresse , from Latin alacer sprightly.] Joy; gladsomeness.

Allegretto Al`le·gret"to adjective [ Italian , dim. of allegro .] (Mus.) Quicker than andante , but not so quick as allegro . -- noun A movement in this time.

Allegro Al·le"gro adjective [ Italian , merry, gay, from Latin alacer lively. Confer Aleger .] (Mus.) Brisk, lively. -- noun An allegro movement; a quick, sprightly strain or piece.

Allelomorph Al·le"lo·morph noun [ Greek ... of one another + Greek ... form.] (Biol.) One of the pure unit characters commonly existing singly or in pairs in the germ cells of Mendelian hybrids, and exhibited in varying proportion among the organisms themselves. Allelomorphs which under certain circumstances are themselves compound are called hypallelomorphs . See Mendel's law . -- Al*le`lo*mor"phic adjective

As we know that the several unit characters are of such a nature that any one of them is capable of independently displacing or being displaced by one or more alternative characters taken singly, we may recognize this fact by naming such characters allelomorphs .

Bateson.

Alleluia, Alleluiah Al`le·lu"ia, Al`le·lu"iah noun [ Latin alleluia , Greek ..., from Hebrew hallēlū-yāh . See Hallelujah .] An exclamation signifying Praise ye Jehovah . Hence: A song of praise to God. See Hallelujah , the commoner form.

I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia .
Rev. xix. 1.

Allemande Al"le·mande" noun [ French, from allemand German.] 1. (Mus.) A dance in moderate twofold time, invented by the French in the reign of Louis XIV.; - - now mostly found in suites of pieces, like those of Bach and Handel.

2. A figure in dancing.

Allemannic Al`le·man"nic adjective See Alemannic .

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