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and *, poison. A poison developed 

 in putrid sausages made of blood and 

 lirer. 



ALLFGA'TION, in ecclesiastical courts, a 

 formal complaint or declaration of charges. 

 In late, the production of instruments or 

 deeds to justify something. 



ALLEGIANCE, the duty or fidelity of a 

 subject to his sovereign or government. 

 The oath of allegiance is that taken in 

 acknowledgment of the temporal autho- 

 rity of the sovereign, as the oath of su- 

 premacy acknowledges the sovereign to be 

 the supreme head of the church. The 

 term is old Fr. from Lat. alligo, of ad 

 and ligo, to bind 



AL'LEGORT, 

 other, and a.yo^iuu, to speak. A figurative 

 sentence or discourse, wherein something 

 else is signified than the words in their 

 literal meaning express. The principal 

 subject is thus kept out of view, and is 

 described by another subject, which is 

 represented so as to bear some resemblance 

 to it in properties and circumstances. 

 The reader or hearer is thus left to collect 

 the meaning from the resemblance which 

 he can find between the secondary and 

 the primary subject. 



ALLEGRE'TTO, in music, denotes a move- 

 ment of time quicker than andante, but 

 not SO quick as allegro. See ALLEGRO. 



ALLEGRISSIMO, in music, means very 

 lively. See ALLEGRO. 



ALLEGRO, Ital. from leggiere, to be merry. 

 In music, a word denoting a brisk move- 

 ment; a sprightly part or strain. There 

 are two other degrees of the same : allegris- 

 simo, very lively ; allegretto, or poco allegro, 

 a little lively. The word piii, more, is 

 sometimes prefixed to strengthen the 

 meaning. , 



ALLEH/IAH (in Heb. ?V-"T77n, praise 

 to Jah). Praise to Jehovah: a word used 

 to denote pious joy and exultation, chiefly 

 in hymns and anthems. The Greeks re- 

 tained the word in their E/fAiy In, praise 

 to lo ; probably a corruption of Jah. The 

 Romans retained the latter word in their 

 lo triumphe. 



AI.LELUIAH, a name given to wood sor- 

 rel (oxalis acetosa). It was so called, be- 

 cause the alleluiah was sung in the church 

 at the time when its leaves first appeared 

 above ground. 



AL'LEM AND (French). In music, a slow 

 air in common time, or grave, solemn 

 music with a slow movement. Also the 

 name of a brisk dance common in Ger- 

 many and Switzerland. 



ALLE'RI ON , in heraldry, an eagle without 

 beak or feet, with expanded wings, de- 

 noting imperialists vanquished and dis- 

 armed. The word is also written alerwn. 



ALL-FOUHS, a game at cards played by 

 two or four persons ; to called from pos- 



session of the four honours by one person, 

 who is then said to have all fourt. 



ALL-HALLOWS, all-saints'-day : the first 

 day of November, dedicated to all the 

 saints in general. 



ALL-HEAL, a popular name of several 

 plants ; e. g a species of hedge nettle 

 (stachys palustris) , is called " clown's all- 

 heal;" and a species of St. John's wort 

 (hypericum androseemum) , has the name 

 of all-heal, besides several others. 



ALLIA'CZOUS, pertaining to garlic (al- 

 lium} : having the properties of garlic. 



ALLIANCE. 1. In civil and canon laic, the 

 relation contracted between two persons 



or two families by marriage. 2. In 



politics and international law, a treaty en- 

 tered into by sovereigns or states, for their 

 mutual safety and defence, or for the 

 purpose of attacking some other state, or 

 for both ; sometimes also the instrument 

 of confederacy. The term is Fr. alliance, 

 the root of which is Her, to unite. 



ALLIGATION, Lat. alligatio, of ad and 

 ligo, to bind. A rule in arithmetic to 

 find the value of compounds, consisting 

 of ingredients of different values. It is 

 divided into two kinds. 1. Alligation 

 medial is when the price and quantities 

 of several simples, which are to be mixed, 

 are given to find the mean price of the 



mixture. 2. Alligation alternate is when 



the prices of several things are given to 

 find the quantities whicli must be taken 

 of them to make a mixture of a given 

 mean price. 



AL'UOATOR, a species or rather subgenus 

 of the crocodile family of reptiles ; to 

 which belongs the crocodilus Indus of 

 Cuvier. The animal belongs to the lizard 

 order (sauria, Cuv.), has a long naked 

 body, four feet, five toes on each fore foot, 

 and four on each hind one, armed with 

 claws, and a serrated tail. The mouth is 

 very large and furnished with sharp teeth ; 

 the skin is brown, tough, and on the 

 sides covered with tubercles. The larger 

 of these animals grow to the length of 17 

 or 18 feet ; they live in and about the rivers 

 of the southern parts of North America ; 

 eat fish, catch hogs on the shore, or dogs 

 when swimming. In winter they burrow- 

 in the mud, and remain torpid till spring. 

 Name altered from allagarto, from Sp. 

 and Port, lagarto, a lizard. 



ALLIGATOR-PEAR, a West Indian fruit, 

 resembling a pear in shape. It is the 

 fruit of the Laurus Persea of Linmrus. 



ALLIN'EMENT, from Fr. alignenient, a 

 squaring, a row, from ligne, a line. 



ALLIOTH, a star in the tail of the Great 

 Bear(ura mayor), much employed in fina- 

 injj the latitude at sea. 



The Arabs gave the name of A*\oth 



or AU tuth, meaning " the horse," to 



each of the three stars in the tail </* uu 

 Great Bear, on account of their appear- 

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