algarot, algaroth

[Either Arabic or named after its inventor, Algarotti, a physician of Verona.] Chem. The name of an emetic powder. It is a pale fawn-coloured crystalline precipitate, consisting of a compound of trichloride and trioxide of antimony, obtained by pouring antimonous chloride, SbCl3, di olved in HCI, into water. Alkaline solutions di olve out the chloride and leave the oxide. * âl-gāt, * al'-gāte, * al-gates ( Eng .), * al-gait, * al-ga-tis ( Scotch ), adv . [A.S. al - geats always, altogether; al all, whole, and geat , gat = a gate, door, opening, or gap.] [GAIT, GATE; AGATE, AGATES, AGATIS.] 1. Always, continually, at all times, under all circumstances. IMG:content-0356.jpg:[blocks in formation] "And how and whan it schulde harded be, Which is unknowe algat unto me. Chaucer: C. Т. , 10,559-60. "Cristes curs mot thou have, brother art thou myn; And if I schal algate be beten anon Cristes curs mot thou have, but thou be that oon." Chaucer: C. T. , 114-116. 3. In any way, by any or by all means, on any terms. "A lis and rine algate than after (that) throwe Bi-thought hire feel busily howe best were to werche To do William to wite the wille of hire lady." William of Palerne , Skeat's ed., 649-651. 4. Certainly, of a truth, verily, indeed. "And seyd. My fadyr euer lastyng, Shall my dere sone dye algate ! 5. Neverthele . Bonaventura , 698, 699. "But if thou algate lust light virelayes, And looser songs of love to underfong, Who but thy selfe deserves sike Poetes prayse?" Spenser: Shep. Cal ., xi