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{ } n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ar. aubūtīlūn. ] (Bot.) A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a colorless liquid compound (H2C:CH.CN); used as raw material for acrylic fibers, and as a solvent.
Syn. -- vinyl cyanide, cyanoethylene, 2-propenenitrile [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. lasting through all time; unending; as, The agelong struggle for freedom.
Syn. -- unending [ WordNet 1.5 ]

or n. (Zool.) The tunny. See Albicore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Allhallows. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. allonge, earlier alonge, a lengthening. See Allonge, v., and cf. Lunge. ] 1. (Fencing) A thrust or pass; a lunge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A slip of paper attached to a bill of exchange for receiving indorsements, when the back of the bill itself is already full; a rider. [ A French usage ] Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ F. allonger; à (L. ad) + long (L. longus) long. ] To thrust with a sword; to lunge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. allonyme, fr. Gr. &unr_; other + &unr_; name. ] 1. The name of another person assumed by the author of a work. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A work published under the name of some one other than the author. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Published under the name of some one other than the author. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ All + one. OE. al one all allone, AS. ān one, alone. See All, One, Lone. ] 1. Quite by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; single; solitary; -- applied to a person or thing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Alone on a wide, wide sea. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is not good that the man should be alone. Gen. ii. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or by itself; by themselves; without any thing more or any one else; without a sharer; only. [ 1913 Webster ]

Man shall not live by bread alone. Luke iv. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

The citizens alone should be at the expense. Franklin. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Sole; only; exclusive. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Hence; Unique; rare; matchless. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The adjective alone commonly follows its noun. [ 1913 Webster ]

To let alone or
To leave alone, to abstain from interfering with or molesting; to suffer to remain in its present state. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Solely; simply; exclusively. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Only; merely; singly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This said spirit was not given alonely unto him, but unto all his heirs and posterity. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Exclusive. [ Obs. ] Fabyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness. [ R. ] Bp. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ OE. along, anlong, AS. andlang, along; pref. and- (akin to OFris. ond-, OHG. ant-, Ger. ent-, Goth. and-, anda-, L. ante, Gr. &unr_;, Skr. anti, over against) + lang long. See Long. ] 1. By the length; in a line with the length; lengthwise. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some laid along . . . on spokes of wheels are hung. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In a line, or with a progressive motion; onward; forward. [ 1913 Webster ]

We will go along by the king's highway. Numb. xxi. 22. [ 1913 Webster ]

He struck with his o'ertaking wings,
And chased us south along. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. In company; together. [ 1913 Webster ]

He to England shall along with you. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

All along, all through the course of; during the whole time; throughout. “I have all along declared this to be a neutral paper.” Addison. --
To get along, to get on; to make progress, as in business. “She 'll get along in heaven better than you or I.” Mrs. Stowe. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. By the length of, as distinguished from across. “Along the lowly lands.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

The kine . . . went along the highway. 1 Sam. vi. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

. [ AS. gelang owing to. ] (Now heard only in the prep. phrase along of.) [ 1913 Webster ]

Along of,
Along on, often shortened to
Long of, prep. phr., owing to; on account of. [ Obs. or Low. Eng. ] “On me is not along thin evil fare.” Chaucer. “And all this is long of you.” Shak. “This increase of price is all along of the foreigners.” London Punch. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Along the shore or coast. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Longshoreman. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. & adv. [ Formed fr. along, like amongst fr. among. ] Along. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Meteorol.) A movement of the atmosphere opposite in character, as regards direction of the wind and distribution of barometric pressure, to that of a cyclone. -- An`ti*cy*clon"ic a. -- An`ti*cy*clon"ic*al*ly adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to an anticyclone; moving in the opposite direction of a cyclone. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Apollo. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. aquilo, -lonis: cf. F. aquilon. ] The north wind. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the real or to the mystical Babylon, or to the ancient kingdom of Babylonia; Chaldean. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. 1. An inhabitant of Babylonia (which included Chaldea); a Chaldean. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An astrologer; -- so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. 1. Pertaining to Babylon, or made there; as, Babylonic garments, carpets, or hangings. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Tumultuous; disorderly. [ Obs. ] Sir J. Harrington. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to, or made in, Babylon or Babylonia. “A Babylonish garment.” Josh. vii. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to the Babylon of Revelation xiv. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Pertaining to Rome and papal power. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The . . . injurious nickname of Babylonish. Gage. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Confused; Babel-like. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. [ Believed to be derived form balogna, but perhaps also influenced by blarney. ] nonsense; foolishness; bunk; -- also used as an interjection. [ Also spelled boloney. ] [ slang ] [ PJC ]

No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney! Al Smith. [ PJC ]

2. informal variant of bologna{ 2 }, for bologna sausage. [ informal ] [ PJC ]

n. [ Gr. ba`ros weight + cyclone + -meter. ] (Meteorol.) An aneroid barometer for use with accompanying graphic diagrams and printed directions designed to aid mariners to interpret the indications of the barometer so as to determine the existence of a violent storm at a distance of several hundred miles. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Lead colic. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., from bellum war. ] (Rom. Myth.) The goddess of war. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Belonged p. pr. & vb. n. Belonging. ] [ OE. belongen (akin to D. belangen to concern, G. belangen to attain to, to concern); pref. be- + longen to desire. See Long, v. i. ] [ Usually construed with to. ] 1. To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service. [ 1913 Webster ]

A desert place belonging to . . . Bethsaids. Luke ix. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mighty men which belonged to David. 1 Kings i. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To be the concern or proper business or function of; to appertain to. “Do not interpretations belong to God ?” Gen. xl. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To be suitable for; to be due to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age. Heb. v. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

No blame belongs to thee. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To be native to, or an inhabitant of; esp. to have a legal residence, settlement, or inhabitancy, whether by birth or operation of law, so as to be entitled to maintenance by the parish or town. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bastards also are settled in the parishes to which the mothers belong. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To be deserved by. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

More evils belong us than happen to us. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Commonly in the pl. ] 1. That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. “Thyself and thy belongings.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Family; relations; household. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Few persons of her ladyship's belongings stopped, before they did her bidding, to ask her reasons. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a needle. ] (Min.) Minute acicular or dendritic crystalline forms sometimes observed in glassy volcanic rocks. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ After Alphonse Bertillon, French anthropologist. ] A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ F. Cf. Billet a stick. ] An alloy of gold and silver with a large proportion of copper or other base metal, used in coinage. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ F., fair, light, of uncertain origin; cf. AS. blonden-feax gray-haired, old, prop. blended-haired, as a mixture of white and brown or black. See Blend, v. t. ] Of a fair color; light-colored; as, blond hair; a blond complexion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] 1. A person of very fair complexion, with light hair and light blue eyes. [ Written also blond. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ So called from its color. ] A kind of silk lace originally of the color of raw silk, now sometimes dyed; -- called also blond lace. [ 1913 Webster ]

A variety of clay ironstone, in Staffordshire, England, used for making tools. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being blond. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ OF. blanquet whitish, dim. of blanc white. Cf. Blanket. ] Gray; bluish gray. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Our bloncket liveries been all too sad. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. bouillir to boil. ] 1. A nutritious liquid food made by boiling beef, or other meat, in water; a clear soup or broth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Far.) An excrescence on a horse's frush or frog. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Zool.) A West Indian fish (Scarus Croicensis). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. cacholong, said to be from Cach, the name of a river in Bucharia + cholon, a Calmuck word for stone; or fr. a Calmuck word meaning “beautiful stone” ] (Min.) An opaque or milk-white chalcedony, a variety of quartz; also, a similar variety of opal. [ 1913 Webster ]