alim (alem)

[Ar. ' alim, ' ālīm, learned, ' alama, know. Cf. alem, almah.] Among Mohammedans, a learned man; a religious teacher, such as an imâm, a mufti, etc. The calling of an Alim is no longer worth much in Egypt. R. F. Burton, El-Medinah, p. 93. alinasal let (anus) distinct from the inlet (mouth), the alimentary canal a umes more definitely the character of a special gastric or digestive cavity, which may remain in open com- muni cation with a general body-cavity, or become shut off therefrom as an intestinal tube. The latter is its char- acter in all the higher animals, in which, moreover, the canal acquires various specializations, as into gullet, stom- ach, intestine, etc., becomes variously complicated or con- voluted, has special ramifications and annexes, etc. In those animals which develop an umbilical vesicle, or this and an amnion and allantois, the cavity of the alimentary canal is primitively continuous with that of the vesicle and with the allantoic cavity. - Alimentary debt, in Scots Alima (al'i-mä), n. [NL., for Halima , άλιμος , of the sea.] A spurious genus of crusaders tion, I know not. Darwin, Insectiv. Plants, p. 17. 3. To fall (upon); come (upon) accidentally, or without design; light: as, as, to alight on a particular pa age in a book, or on a particular fact; to alight on a rare plant. a lighten1t (a-li'tn), v. t. [ alinement.