algorithm, algorism, algor is me, algrim

[Arab.] Arithmetic; numerical computation. [AWGRIM.] "He [Gerbert) certainly was the first who brought the algorithm from the Saracens, and who illustrated it with such rules as the most studious in that science cannot explain."- Warton : Hist. of Eng . Poetry , iii. 46. *al-gōse, a . [Not from Lat, algosus = abounding in sea-weed, but from algor or algus = coldne ; algeo = to be cold, to feel cold.] Full of cold; very cold. (Johnson.) ǎl'-go us, a . [Lat. algosus = full of, abounding in sea-weed; alga = sea-weed.] Pertaining to sea-weed; abounding in sea-weed; resembling sea-weed.