alaskaite (alaska it)

[Better * alaskite, IMG:content-0460.png:[blocks in formation] the peninsula or territory of Alaska in N. W. " Alaskan cedar," Science, IV. 475. America; growing or found in Alaska: as, alastor (a-las'tor), n. [ Alata (a-lat a), n . pl . [NL., neut. pl. of L. alatus , winged: see alate2 .] A name given by Lamarck to a combination of the molluscan families Strombidæ , Aporrhaidæ , and Struthio- larida , having reference to the expanded wing- like outer lip of the shell. See wings hell. alatcha (ä-la-chä'), n. [See aladja .] A cotton stuff made in central Asia, dyed in the thread, and woven with white stripes on a blue ground. E. Schuyler , Turkis tan, I. 5. alatelt (a-lat'), prep. phr. as adv. [ of + late .] Of late; lately. Where chilling frosts alate did nip, There flasheth now a fire. Greene, Doralicia. alate, alated (a'lāt, a'la-ted), a . [ alatus , winged, ala , wing: see aisle .] 1. Winged; having membranous expansions like wings. But the Harpies alate In the storm came, and swept off the maidens. Mrs. Browning , Poems (1878), p. 219. Specifically-( a ) In bot . , applied to stems and leaf-stalks with the edges or angles longitudinally expanded into leaf pans ions: opposed to apterous. (b) In conch., having an like borders, or to other organs having membranous exexpanded lip: applied to shells. See cut under Aporrhaidæ. 2. In arch., having wings, as a building: as, "an alate temple," Stukeley, Palæographia Sacra (1763), p. 73. a latere (a lat'e-re). [L., from the side: a for ab, from; latere, abl. of lat us, side: see lateral. ] From the side; side from beside a person: used in the phrase legate a latere. See legate. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary alatern