Alausa (alasa)

Same as Alosa. albl (alb), n. [ A white albe plain with a vestment or cope. Book of Common Prayer (1549). Each priest adorn'd was in a surplice white; The bishops donn'd their albs and copes of state. Fairfax , Ta o, ii. 4. 2. In the early church , a white garment worn albe the sides externally concave, used in the fifteenth century and later as a drug-pot. albarium (al-bā'ri-um), n. [L. (sc. opus, work), white stucco; neut. of albarius, pertaining to the whitening of walls. Cf. albare, whiten, He was not the genuine article, but a substitute, a kind of albata. G. A. Sala, Baddington Peerage, II. 232. Albati (al-bā'ti), n. pl. [LL., pl. of L. albatus, clothed in white: see albata.] A body of fan at IMG:content-0463.png:[graphic] Sunday after Easter by the newly baptized. Formerly also written alba , albe . Apparels of the alb, square pieces of embroidery in col- ors or precious orphrey-work sewed or otherwise fastened upon the alb, commonly in six places: much used between alb2 (alb), n. [Turk.) A small Turkish coin, nearly equal in value to a cent. to Pliny, Suet on i us, and Gregory of Tours, a Gaulish or Celtic word (cf. Bret. alchoueder, alba (alba), n. [NL. ( sc.subs tanti a ), fem. of L. alb us , white, used as a noun.] White fibrous nerve-ti ue, as distinguished from the gray or Woodlark (Alauda arborea). cellular. alchouedez , the lark); said to be "lit. 'great songstre ,' from al , high or great, and aud , song." The W. name uchedydd, lit. 'soarer, albacore (al'ba-kōr), n. [Also formerly written is a different word. albecore. albocore (cf. F. " albacore , a certain Hence It. alod a = Sp. alondra, OSp. aluda, aloa Pr.alauza =OF. aloe, with dim. ML. laudula, laudila, It. al lodola, lodola (dial. lodana ), and OIt. alo detta, allodetta = OSp. aloeta Pr. alauzeta = F. alouette, the lark. A genus of birds, typi Cf. calandra and lark1.] cal of the family Alaudidæ, or larks. The genus was formerly coextensive with the family, but is now restricted to such species as the skylark, A. arvensis, and the woodlark, A. arborea. The species of Alauda proper are natives of the old world, and inhabit chiefly its northern portions; they are small, plain-colored, spotted, and streaked birds; they nest on the ground, and are noted for singing as they soar aloft, and for the delicacy of their flesh. See Alaudidæ and larkl. Alaudidæ (a-la'di-dē), n. pl. [NL., plantar. By others, however, the Alaudidæ have been ranked as a subfamily, Alaudine, under Fringillidæ. The hallux bears a lengthened straightened claw. There are many genera and species, mostly of the old world, and especially of Africa; only one genus, Eremophila or Oto corys, the shore or horned lark, is indigenous to America. The Alaudidæ are mostly migratory; they inhabit open country, nest on the ground, lay colored eggs, and sing as they soar; some of the species are gregarious. See Alau da and lark1. Alaudine (al-a-di'nē), n. pl. [NL., alaudine (a-la'din), a. [ IMG:content-0464.png:[blocks in formation] the family Ela terida. A. ocula tus, one of the largest of the North American snapping-beetles, is a well-known species upward of 14 inches long. It has two velvety black spots encircled with white on the prothorax, and white dots scattered over the whole surface; its larvæ live in de caying wood. Alb of Thomas à Becket in the cathedral at Sens, with apparels of rich stuff The alba constitutes the columns of the myelon, etc. Wilder and Gage, Anat. Tech., p. 472. Albacore or Tunny ( Orcynus alalonga ). fish in the Indian sea, which is very good meat," Cotgrave), Also written albicore .