Albuminous, Album I Nose

[Fr. albumineux.) Having the properties of albumen. Albu'mino us ne , n. The state of being albuminous. Albuminuria. See BRIGHT'S DISEASE. Albuquerque, ALFONSO D', viceroy of India, surnamed the Great, and called the Portuguese Mars. Sent with a squadron to India, by king Emanuel, he arrived Sept. 26, 1503, on the coast of Malabar; took po e ion of Goa; subdued the whole of Malabar, Ceylon, the Sunda islands, and the peninsula of Malacca. In 1507 he made himself master of the island of Ormus, at the entrance of the Persian gulf. Notwithstanding his great merits, he did not escape the envy of the courtiers, and the suspicions of king Emanuel, who sent Lopez Soarez, the personal enemy of A., to fill his place. He died a few days after receiving the intelligence, at Goa, in 1615. A. was the first to lead a European fleet into the waters of the Red sea. That he was a great and enlightened man there can be no question; and this is testified in the rare fact of both Moors and Indians, after his death, repairing to his tomb as to that of a father, to implore redre from the cruelty and wrong which they were doomed to suffer from his succe ors. Fifty years after his death, his remains were conveyed to Portugal. Emanuel ennobled the son of A., who wrote a history of his father's enterprises. Albuquerque, in New Mexico territory, a post-town of Bernalillo co., on the Rio Grande, abt. 60 m. S.W. of Santa Fé. A. has an elevation of abt. 5,000 ft. above the sea. Albuquerque, a town of Spain, prov. of Estremadura, on the frontier of Portugal, 22 m. N.N.W. of Badajoz. Pop. 5,470. Al'burg, in Vermont , a township of Grand Isle co., on a peninsula between the Canada line, Mi is que Bay, and Richelieu river, in communication with Lake Cham plain. Al'burg Springs, in Vermont , a post-village in the above township, 87 miles N.W. of Montpelier. Albur'nous, a. Belonging or relating to alburnum. Alburnum, n. [From Lat. alb us , white.] ( Bot . ) That part of the stem of trees which timber-merchants call sapwood . It is the newly formed, unchanged wood lying immediately below the bark, and is always of a very light color. It is the principal channel through which the crude sap is conveyed from the roots into the leaves, and is, therefore, an indispensable part in all exogenous trees. (See AGE OF TREES.) It consists of little besides vegetable ti ue; in which respect it dif fers from heartwood or duramen, which is vegetable ti ue combined with solid secretions, the nature of which varies with species. It is probably on the later account that heartwood is so much more durable than sapwood; for all vegetable ti ue is in itself equally perishable, and it only ceases to be so in consequence of the presence of secretions of a le destructible character. While many plants have the alburnum and heartwood distinctly separated, there are others, technically called white wooded trees, which consist of nothing but alburnum. This arises from their not forming any solid secretions which can give durability to the central parts; hence all such trees are quickly perishable, and are generally unfit for any but temporary purposes.