altered on adding an acid; with lime, baryta, and oxide Alkarsin

( Chem.) See KAKODYL, OXIDE OF. of iron, it forms an insoluble purple lac. With alumina Alker'mes, n. See KERMES. it forms a beautiful red lac. By a heat of 420° alizarin Al'kor an. See KORAN. is sublimated and forms beautiful transparent orange- Alk'maar. ( Geog. ) See ALCKMAAR. colored needles, which are anhydrous and of high lustre. Form, C14 H8 04. Aljubarro'ta, a town of Portuguese Estremadura, 15 m. S. of Leiria; pop . 1,600. In the vicinity Alphonso I. defeated the Moors in 1139, and on the same field John I. of Portugal gained over John I., king of Castile, in 1385, the signal victory of Campo de Ouriques, described by Camoens in the fourth Canto of his Lusiad. Alkahest, n. [Ar.] The supposed universal solvent of the alchemists. Alkahes'tic, a . Relating or pertaining to alkahest. Al-Kai eria, a town in the N. part of Morocco, not far from Al-Kasar; pop . abt. 8,000. Alkales'cency, n. [Fr. alcalescence .] A tendency to become alkaline. Alkmaar, ( atk - mahr ',) HENRIK VAN. The reputed author of the first German version of the world-renowned apologue of "Reynard the For ." It is written in Low German, and was printed in Lübeck in 1498. Its title is "Reineke de Vos." For a full account of this work, and of the controversy respecting its authorship, see Carlyle's E ays, vol. ii. p. 298. Ile lived about 1475-1500. Alkool', or ALKOOHL, n. ( Chem .) A preparation of antimony, used by the women of Eastern nations to tinge the eyelids and lashes of a black color. Dr. Shaw, speaking of the women of Barbary, says, "None of these consider themselves dre ed till they have tinged the edges of their eyelids with alkoohl."