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( Bot. ) A gen. of plants, ord. Apocyn aceæ. An infusion of the leaves of the A. cathartic a is considered a valuable cathartic in medicine, in moderate doses, especially in the case of painters' colic. In overdoses it is violently emetic and purgative. All-a-mort', a. [See AMORT.] Dispirited. "What! sweeting, all a-mort-Shaks. All a much'y, or ALLAMUCHEE, in New Jersey, a post village of Warren co., abt. 60 m. N. of Trenton. Allan, DAVID, B. at Alloa, Scotland, 1744, has been called the Scottish Hogarth , although far inferior to the distinguished artist in the pathos of humorous and eccentric delineations of human characteristics. Lord Erskine of Mar sent him to Rome to prosecute his studies. Here a painting of the Corinthian Maid who exe cuted a profile of her lover's countenance, round the shadow thrown by a lamp upon the wall, procured him a golden medal in the Academy of St. Luke, and a proportionate amount of reputation. His most popular designs are the twelve illustrations of Ramsay's farfamed Scottish pastoral, The Gentle Shepherd. D. 1796. Allan, SIR WILLIAM, an historical painter, B. in Edinburgh, 1782. He was an old and attached friend of Sir Walter Scott. In 1838 he was chosen president of the Royal Scottish Academy, and was knighted in 1842 His best productions are, the Circa ian Captives, the Slave - Market at Constantinople, Mary and Rizzio , and the Battle of Waterloo . D. 1850. Allan, in Scotland, a river noted for the beauty of the scenery through which it flows for 18 m., when it fails into the Frith of Forth, 2 m. from Stirling.