alhagi

[Arabic.] A genus of plants belonging to the order Fabaceæ (Leguminous Plants), and the sub-order Papilionacese. It contains the Camel-thorns, A. camelorum, A. maurorum, . They are, as the name implies, thorny plants, which are found in the desert, and afford food to the camel as he traverses those wastes. Several species of Camel's-thorn, allied to A. maurorum, produce a kind of manna in Persia and Bokhara, but not, it is said, in India, Arabia, or Egypt. [MANNA.] IMG:content-0358.png:[blocks in formation] year of the Hegira 675 = A.D. 1273. Extensive and splendid ruins of it still exist. "He pa 'd the Alhambra's calm and lovely bowers, Where slept the glistening leaves and folded flowers." Hemans: The Abencerrage , c. L. al-hěn'-nạ, s. [Arab. alt he, and henna .] [HENNA.] āl-i-as, adv., s., & adj. [Lat. adv. = otherwise.] A. As an adverb: Law : A term used to indicate the various names under which a person who attempts to conceal his true name and pa under a fictitious one is ascertained to have pa ed during the succe ive stages of his career. Used in a similar sense in ordinary lan guage. "Nor Verstegan, alias Rowly, [had 'undertook'undertaken] the confidence to render well-nigh all the considerable gentry of this land, from the etymology of their names, Teutonicks" -Sir T. Herbert: Travels, p. 396. B. As a substantive: 1. A second name, or more probably one of a string of names, a umed by a member of the criminal cla es to render his identification difficult. forced to to a ume every ery week new aliases and new disguises."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng , ch. xxi. * 2. Formerly: A second writ or execution i ued against a person when the first had failed of its effect. The first was called a capias , requiring the sheriff of some county to take a certain person that he might be sued on a specified charge. If the answer were Non est invent us (he is not found), then an alias writ went forth in which these words occurred, Sicut alias præcipimus (as we have formerly commanded you). If this failed, a pluries writ followed. [PLURIES.] ( Black stone's Comment . , bk. iii., ch. 19; also Appendix, p. xv.; bk. iv., ch. 24.) It was abolished by 15 and 16 Vict., c. 76, § 10. C. As adjective : In a similar sense to B. 2, as "an alies writ."