alley (1), aley, allaye, allre, alure

& a. [Sw. alle; Dan. & Ger. allee; Port. allca; O. Fr. alier; Fr. allée a pa age, from aller = to go: ( lit. =a pa ing or going).] A. As substantive; L. Ordinary Language: 1. A walk in a garden, or a path in a wood or plantation. "Where alleys are close gravelled, the earth putteth forth the first year knotgra , and after spire gra ."Bacon: Natural History. I know each lane, and every alley green, Dingle, or bushy dell, of this wild wood, And every bosky bouru from side to side." Milton: Comus . "And rode till midnight, when the college lights Began to glitter firefly-like in copse And linden alley then we past an arch." Tennyson: The Prince , 1. 2. A narrow pa age in a city, as distinguished from a public street. As a rule, it is not a thoroughfare for wheeled carriages. (a) Designed for bowling. "Two sortes of all ages in London I finde The one agaynste the lawe, and the other again ste kinde. The first is where bowlings forbidden, men use, And wastynge theyr goodes, do their labour refuse. Crowley: Epigrams; Of All a yes (1550). (b) Designed for the habitation of the poorer cla es. "The other sorte of all a yes that be agaynst kynde Do mak my harte wepe when they com to my mind; For there are por people welmost innumerable That are dryven to begge, and yet to worcke they are able, If they might have al things provided aright." Crowley: Epigrams ; Of All a yes (1550). "That in an aley had a privé place." Chaucer: C. T. , 14,980. "That town is a small knot of steep and narrow."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. v. alleys The Alley , or Change Alley , was a place in London where stocks were formerly bought and sold. ( Ash : Dict . , 1775.) 3. Fig .: One of the narrower pa ages for the conveyance of blood through the human frame. "That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body." II. Technically : Shakesp. Hamlet , i. 5. *1. Arch .: Formerly an aisle in a church. [AISLE.] "The cro all ye of the Lanthorne before the Quire dore, goinge north and south."-Glo . of Arch. 2. Printing: The compositor's standing IMG:content-0393.png:[blocks in formation]