English popular ballad or lyrical poetry is full of such Allopathic

Belonging or relating to allopathy. lines as those with which the Scotch song commences: Allopath'ically, adv. According to the principles "Merry may the maid be That marries the miller; For joul day and fair day," ., . Down even to the present day, the use of A. , to a considerable extent, has continued to characterize English versification in its most polished form, and in the hands of some of the greatest poets. Byron's line in the concluding stanza of the second canto of Childe Harold, "What is the worst of woes that wait on age?" may be given as an example. Church ill has at once ridiculed and exemplified the figure in his well-known verse, "And apt alliteration's artful aid," where every word begins with the same letter. Allit'erative, a. Pertaining or relating to alliteration. Allit'erator, n. One who makes use of alliterations. Al'lium, n. [Lat.] ( Bot . ) A gen. of plants, O. Liliaceæ , re mark able for their pungent odor. A. sativum , the garlic, a native of Sicily, is cultivated in all parts of the world. Its bulb, used as seasoning, and also in medicine, is composed of several smaller ones surrounded by a common white membrane, and called cloves of garlic. They are strong scented, and have a bitter, acrid taste. ( Med .) The garlic is a local irritant and rubefacient. Internally it quickeus the circulation and stimulates the secretions gener ally. It is employed as an expectorant in chronic catarrhal affections, and as a stomachic in flatulence, . Externally, it is used as a revulsive rubefacient to the feet, as a resolvent in indolent tumors, and as a liniment in infantile convulsions. See ONION. of marsh, covering nearly the entire peninsula between Pamlico and Albemarle sounds. Al'ligator Tortoise. See TORTOISE.