alkermes (alkermez)

[F. alkermes, now alkermès, Ar. al - qirmiz : see kermes .] 1. The IMG:content-0504.png:[blocks in formation] all nourish, grow, produce, = Icel. ala (> E. dial. aliel, q. v.), nourish, = Goth. alan, grow, be nourished, = L. alere, nourish (see aliment ), of which all, Goth. alls, stem * all a-, an a imilation of * alna-, would be an ancient pp. adj. form in -n (cf. a like a imilation in full1 ), to be compared with AS. ald, eald, E. old, OHG. alt =Goth. * alths, altheis, old, = L. alt us, deep, high, an ancient pp. adj. form in -t (-d2, -ed2): see old and alt. Cf. Ir. ule, uile = Gael. uile = W. oll, whole, all, every. The several uses of all, as adj., pron., noun, and adv., overlap, and cannot be entirely separated. See alders, orig. gen. pl. of all.] I. a. 1. The whole quantity of, with reference to substance, extent, duration, amount, or degree: with a noun in the singular, chiefly such nouns (proper names, names of substances, abstract nouns-any whole or any part regarded in itself as a whole) as from their meaning or particular use do not in such use admit of a plural: as, all Europe; all Homer; all flesh; all control; all history. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. Shak ., M. of V., i. 1. Shak ., Hen. V., v. 1. All hell shall stir for this. No one will contend that all legislative power belongs to Congre , all executive power to the President, or all judicial power to the courts of the United States. D. Webster, Speech, Senate, May 17, 1834. 2. The whole number of, with reference to individuals or particulars, taken collectively: with a noun in the plural: as, all men; all nations; all metals; all hopes; all sciences; all days. [ All in logic is the sign of a distributed term in an affirmative proposition: as, all men are mortal. This use of all, in place of every, is a result of Boëthius's use of omnis as a translation of the wᾶς of Aristotle.] All sins are in all men, but do not appear in each man. He that hath one sin, hath all . Bushnell, Nat. and the Super nat., p. 388. 3. Every: chiefly with kind, sort, manner, and formerly with thing. Ble ed are ye, when men shall revile you and... shall say all manner of evil against you, falsely. Mat. v. 11. 4. Any; any whatever: after a preposition or verb implying negation or exclusion: as, beyond all controversy; out of all question; he was free from all thought of danger. IMG:content-0505.png:[blocks in formation] When joined to nouns accompanied by a definitive (the definite article, a po e ive or demonstrative pronoun, etc.), all precedes the latter whether with a singular or plural noun, or else follows the noun if it is plural; as, all my labor; all his goods; all this time; all these things; all the men agreed to this, or, the men all agreed to this. In the phrases all day, all night, all summer, all winter, all the year, all the time, etc., the noun is an adverbial accusative. In the first four the article is usually omitted. IMG:content-0506.png:[blocks in formation] alkoxid, alkoxide (al-kok's id, -sid or -sid), n. [ alcohol ) + oxid .] A compound in which alcohol unites with a metallic base. The base replaces hydrogen in the alcohol hydroxyl: as CH3ONa, (see II., 2); or the two constructions may stand together. sodium alkoxid, formed by treating sodium with methyl alcohol. alkyl (al'kil), n. [ the alkyl radicals. all (al), a. and n. [ The alternative construction of We all of us complain of the shortne of time. Add is on, Spectator, No. 93. The adjective all, with a singular or plural noun, is often separated from its subject, especially by the verb be (expre ed, or in the present participle often omitted), and, being thus apparently a part of the predicate, a umes a transitional position, and may equally well be regarded as an adverb, meaning altogether, wholly: as, the house was all dark; he was all ears; the poor horse was all skin and bones; the papers were all in confusion; it was all a mistake; it is all gone. He is all for fasting. Burton , Anat. of Mel., p. 245. She follow'd my poor father's body, Shak., Hamlet, i. 2. IMG:content-0507.png:[blocks in formation] Doth all that haunts the waste and wild Mourn, knowing it will go along with me? We are betrayd and ynome [taken], Horse and harne , lords, all and some. Rich. C. de L. , 1. 2283. The tale ys wrytyn al and sum In a boke of Vitas Patrum. Hold her a wealthy bride within thine arms, Or all but hold, and then-cast her aside. IMG:content-0508.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0509.png:[blocks in formation] Go, sirrah; for all you are my man, go wait upon my cousin Shallow. Shak ., M. W. of W., i. 1. As Noah's pigeon, which return'd no more, Did show, she footing found, for all the flood. Sir J. Davies , Immortal. of Soul, xxxii. A man's a man for a ' that. Burns , For A' That. IMG:content-0510.png:[blocks in formation] His sacrifice he dede.. with alle circumstances Al telle I nat as now his observances. But living art may not least part expre e, All were it Zeuxis or Praxiteles, His dædale hand would faile and greatly faynt. Spenser, F. Q., iii., Prol.] (b) In whole: as, in part or in all . - Over allt, everywhere. Chaucer. [Now only in its literal meaning.] - Two (or twos) all, three all, etc., in certain games, means that all (or merely both) the players or sides have two, three, (c) With conjunction as : All as. (1) Just when; when; as. etc., points. When all comes to all, when everything is explained; at bottom. With allt. See withal . III. n. [Preceded by an article or a pronoun, rarely with an intervening adjective.] 1. A whole; an entirety; a totality of things or qual- ities. The All is used for the universe. And will she yet abase her eyes on me,. On me, whose all not equals Edward's moiety? IMG:content-0511.png:[blocks in formation] Old Boreas - we are glad of that was required to pack up "his alls " and be off. De Quincey, Hero dot us, ii. [For all in composition, see the adverb, at end.] all (al), adv . [ al , rarely alle , eall , eal (=OS. al , etc.), prop. neut. acc. (cf. AS. ealles =OS. alles =Goth. allis , adv., prop. gen. neut.) of eall , eal , all: see all , a. The adverbial uses of all overlap the adjectival uses: see es- pecially under all , a., I., at end.] 1. Wholly; entirely; completely; altogether; quite. In this use common with adverbs of degree, espe- cially too : as, he arrived all too late. And tell us what occasion of import Hath all so long detain'd you from your wife. Shak., T. of the S., iii. 2. Alone, alone, all , all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea. O, yet methought I saw the Holy Grail, All pall'd in crimson samite. [From the frequent Middle English use of all in this sense before verbs with the prefix to- (see to -2, to - break , to - cut , to-tear, etc.), that prefix, when no longer felt as such, came to be attached to the adverb, all to or alto being regarded as an adverbial phrase or word, and sometimes improperly used, in later English, with verbs having originally no claim to the prefix. The sowdan and the cristen euerichone, Ben al to - he we and stiked at the bord. And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to - brake [printed all to brake ] his scull. Judges ix. 53. She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort, Were all to - ruffled [sometimes printed altorufled ], and sometimes impair'd. Milton , Comus, 1. 380.] 2. Even; just: at first emphatic or intensive. (a) With prepositional phrases of place or time, in later use, particularly in ballad poetry, little more than merely expletive or pleonastic: as, all in the month of May; all in the morning tide. When all aloud the wind doth blow. Shak., L. L. L., v. 2 (song). A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined. One night my pathway swerving east, I saw The pelican on the casque of our Sir Bors All in the middle of the rising moon. IMG:content-0512.png:[blocks in formation] And there in gloom cast himself all along . Tennyson, Balin and Balan. All along of. See along 2. - All in the wind ( naut .), too close to the wind: said of a ve el so brought up into the wind that the sails shake. - All of a sudden, suddenly; quite unexpectedly. Matters have taken so clever a turn all of a sudden, that I could find it in my heart to be so good-humoured! Sheridan, The Rivals, iv. 2. All one, the same thing in effect; quite the same. Yet I have the wit to think my master is a kind of a knave: but that's all one , if he be but one knave. Shak ., T. G. of V., iii. 1. All out [ME, al oute , alout ], entirely; completely; quite. Then come these wikkyde Jewes and brake theyre thees, and slewe them alle owte . MS . Lincoln (A), i. 17, folio 184. ( Hall i well .) Whanne he hadde don his wille al oute . Rom. of the Rose , 1. 2101. Used especially with drink (see carouse ). I quaught, I drinke all out. (b) With conjunctions if and though , in conditional and conce ive clauses: If all , though all , or reversely, all if , all though , even if, even though. These forms are obso- lete, except the last, which is now written as one word, although (which see). Chaucer, Troilus, iii, 398. zif alle it be so that men seyn, that this crowne is of thornes. Mandeville (ed. Hall i well), p. 13. Thof alle that he werred in wo & in strife, The foure & tuenty houres he spended in holy life. [When the verb in such clauses, according to a common subjunctive construction, was placed before the subject, the conjunction if or though might be omitted, leaving all as an apparent conjunction, in the sense of even if, al- though; especially in the formula al be , as al be it , al be it that , al be that (now albe , albeit , which see). Al were it that my auncetres were rude Yit may the highe God Graunte me grace to lyve vertuously. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary all a gite The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary allantotoxicum (a-lan-tō-tok'si-kum), n. [ ἀλλᾶς (ἀλλαντ-), sausage, + τοξικόν , poison: see toxic .] Sausage-poison;; a poison found in pu- trid sausage made of blood and liver. all ant uric (al-an-tū'rik), a . [ allantoin + uric .] Obtained from allantoin and uric acid: as, al- lanturic acid. all a prima (al'lä prēmä). [It., lit. according to the first: all a , q. v.; prima , fem. of primo , first: see prime.] In painting , an expre ion denoting a method in which the pigments are laid on the canvas in thick heavy ma es, instead of in washes, glazes, or repeated coats. Paolo Veronese painted generally all a prima with more body than Titian (whose patience he appeared to want), so that the finished picture was little more than the ab- bozzo; that is, he painted up at once. all as so tonic (a-las-o-ton'ik), a. [Irreg. τόνος , tension.] In bot . , a term applied by De Vries to the movements allatratet (al'a-trat), v. t. [ all at ratus , pp. of all at rare , adlatrare , bark at, revile, ad , to, + latrare , bark: see latrate .] To bark out; utter by barking. Also spelled a lat rate . Let Cerberus, the dog of hel, a lat rate what he list to the contrary. Stubbes , Anat. of Abuses (ed. 1880), p. 158. aloi ), aleyer , alayer (F. aloyer ), allay, and alloy .] 1. The alloy, mix: see allay2 , act or proce of alloying; an alloy. 2. Figuratively, admixture, especially of some- thing inferior. This comedy grew out of Congreve and Wycherley, but Lamb , Artificial Comedy. gathered some allays of the sentimental comedy which followed theirs. 3. Mixture; dilution. allaudt (a-lâd'), v . t . [L. all aud are , adlaudare, ad , to, + laudare , praise (see laud ); a doublet of allow2 , q. v.] To praise. allay1 (a-la'), v . [Early mod. E. also alay ; alayen , aleyen , earlier aleggen (pret. aleyde , pp. aleyd , alayd , aleid ), alecgan (pret. allay3t, v. t . [ ala ye , aleye , alleye , alegde , al ālēde, pp. pp. alegd , aled ), lay lay down, with- aleier , alaier , declare on oath, allegare , men- draw, suppre , cause to cease (= OHG. irlection, cite, adduce: see allegel and allegation .] can, MHG. erleggen, G. erlegen = Goth. uslag- To cite; quote; allege. jan , lay down), ā- , E. a-1, + lecgan, E. lay1, allay4t, n. [Early mod. E. also alay ; allay , ala is , OF. eslais , eslai ier , let alay (cf. arise, abide , etc.); the spelling all out, lai ier (F. lai er ), simulates a L. origin. The word was early let, laxare , relax: see lax , laches , and cf. confused in spelling and sense with several relay .] In hunting , the act of laying on the other words of L. origin, namely, allay2 , allay3, hounds; the addition of fresh hounds to the allege , allege2 : see these words. The senses cry. mix and cannot be entirely separated.] I. allayer1 (a-lā'ér), n. [ All an to idea (al-an-toi'de-a), n. pl . [NL., al- lan to ides : see allantoid .] Those vertebrates in which an allantois is developed. Considered as a group in zoology, the All an to idea consist of mammals, 3t. To put down; humble; overthrow. birds, and reptiles, as distinguished from An all an to idea , or amphibians and fishes. The word is synonymous with Amnion at a , as distinguished from An amnion at a . allantoid i an (al-an-toi'di-an), a . and n. [ lantoid + -ian ; = F. allantoidien .] I. a. Hav- ing an allantois, as the embryo or fetus of one of the higher vertebrates. 4. To put down; quiet; a uage; pacify, ap- pease, calm, as a commotion of the elements, or, figuratively, civil commotions, mental ex- citement, or an agitated person. The joyous time now nighs fast, That shall alegge this bitter blast. IMG:content-0515.png:[blocks in formation] Would ne'er be masked, all be his vices were. B. Jonson, Sejanus, iv. 5. all bone (al'bōn), n. [ all + bonel ; a tr. of Gr. ὁλόστεον , όλος , whole, + ὀστέον , bone.] An Shak . , Tempest, i. 2. English name for the stitchwort, Stellar i a Ho- If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them. There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty. Instead of allaying the animosity of the two populations, he inflamed it to a height before unknown. Macaulay , Hist. Eng., vi. Alas, that neither moon nor snow nor dew Nor all cold things can purge me wholly through, A uage me, nor allay me, nor appease, 5. To abate, mitigate, or subdue; relieve or alleviate: as, to allay misery or pain; to allay The griefs of private men are soon allayed , But not of kings. allectt (a-lekt'), v. t. [ allectare , adlectare , freq. of all i cere , adlicere , attract, draw to one's self, ad , to, + lacere , entice.] To entice. allectationt (al-ek-ta's hon), n. [L. allecta- tio (n-), adlectatio ( n- ), allectare , adlectare : see allect.] Enticement; allurement. Marlowe , Edward II., v. 1. allectivet (a-lek'tiv), a . and n. [ allect +-ive.] I. a . Alluring. Yet leave me not! I would allay that grief Which else might thy young virtue overpower. =Syn. Alleviate , Relieve, Mitigate, A uage , Allay (see alleviate ), calm, quiet, soothe, compose, still, lull, tran- quilize, check, repre , soften, ease, moderate. For raging wind blows up ince ant showers, And when the rage allays , the rain begins. Shak ., 3 Hen. VI., i. 4. allaylt (a-lā'), n. [ allay1 , v.] That which al- lays, lightens, or alleviates. to form the placenta. In those vertebrates, as mammals, in which the umbilical vesicle has but a brief period of activ ity, the allantois chiefly sustains the functions whereby the fetus is nourished by the blood of the mother, and has its own blood arterialized. In parturition, so much of the allantois as is outside the body of the fetus is cast off, the separation taking place at the navel. See cut under amnion. You are of a high and choleric complexion, And you must have allays . Fletcher, Double Marriage, v. 1. Friendship is the allay of our sorrow. Jer. Taylor. allegation Reprove my allegation if you can, Or else conclude my words effectual. Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iii. 1. I expect not to be excused on account of youth, want of leisure, or any other idle allegations . 3. In law: (a) The a ertion or statement of a party to a suit or other proceeding, civil or criminal, which he undertakes to prove. (b) The plaintiff's first pleading in a testamentary cause. (c) In eccles . suits , any pleading subsequent to the first. - Defensive allegation, in England, the mode of propounding circumstances of defense by a defendant in the spiritual courts. The defendant is entitled to the plaintiff's answer upon oath to his allegation, and may thence proceed to proofs as well as his antagonist. allegel (a-lej'), v. t.; pret. and pp. alleged , ppr. alleging. [Early mod. E. also alledge , alleage , alleadge, aleggen , alegen , alegier , aligier ( adlegiare ), in form = OF. esligier ( exlitigare , clear at law, ex , out, + litigare , sue at law: see litigate ), but in sense taken as = OF. alleguer , F. alléguer (a restored form for earlier OF. aleier , alaier , declare on oath, > ME. aleye , alleye, ala ye : see allay3) = Sp. alegar = Pr. Pg. allegar = It. al legare, L. allegare, adlegare, send, depute, relate, mention, adduce, ad , to, + legare , send: see legate .] 1. To declare before a court; plead at law; hence, in general, to produce as an argument, plea, or excuse; cite or quote in confirmation: as, to allege exculpatory facts; to allege the authority of a court. He [Thrasymachus], amongst other arts which he alleges in evidence of his views, cites that of government. De Quincey, Plato. 2. To pronounce with positivene ; declare; affirm; a ert: as, to allege a fact. In many alleged cases, indeed, of haunted houses and the like, a detailed revelation of names and places might expose the narrator to legal action. H. N. Oxenham , Short Studies, p. 73. =Syn. 1. Adduce , Allege , A ign , etc. (see adduce ), bring forward, aver, a everate, maintain, say, insist, plead, produce, cite. = allege2t, v. t. [Early mod. E. also alledge, alege, Capable of being alleged or affirmed.