albata

[Lat. albatus = clothed in white. ] What is more familiarly known as German silver. [SILVER.] al-ba-tro , * al-ba-tros, s . [Ger.albatro ; Fr. albatros ; all from Port. alcatros or alca tras; introduced into Eng. by Dampier, altered by Grew to albitros , and by Edwards to alba tros. (Griffith's Cuvier , vol. viii., 1829, p. 571.).] A large sea-bird, belonging to the Pro cell aridæ, or Petrel family. It is the Diomedea exu lans of Linnæus. When young it is of a sooty or brown colour, but when mature it is white with black wings. It nestles on elevated land, and lays numerous eggs, which are edible. It has a voice as loud as that of the a . From its colour, its large size, amounting to as much as fifteen feet in the expanse of its wings, and its abundance in the ocean near and especially south of the Cape of Good Hope, sailors call it the Cape Sheep; sometimes, also, it is named the Man-of-war Bird. There is a northern species near Behring Straits. [DIOMEDEA.] whales and seals, petrels and albatro ."Darwin: Voyage round the World, ch. viii. (See also Cole ridge's Ancient Mariner.) al-be-do, s. [Lat. = the colour white, whitene .] Astron.: A term used in describing planets, and meaning "the proportion diffusedly reflected by an element of surface of the solar light incident on such element." ( Monthly Notices Roy. Astron. Soc., vol. xx., 103, .) †âl-be-it, * al'-bē, * al'-bee, conj . [Eng. all; be ; it be it all.] Be it so, admit, although, notwithstanding. ( Obsolescent .) "I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides. " -Philem . 19. "Departed thence: albee his woundes wyde Not thoroughly heald unready were to ryde." Spenser: F. Q., L., v. 45. al-bër-i-a, s. [From Lat. alb us = white, or, according to Meyrick, from a people called the Albenses .] Her. A shield without ornament or armorial bearing. (Glo . of Heraldry .)