all-one 
all-one (al'wun'), a. [< all + one. Cf. all one, 
under all, adv.} Being all and yet one: an 
epithet of God. [Rare.] 
Surely the fact that the motive principle of existence 
moves in a mysterious way outside our consciousness, no 
way requires that the All-One Being should be himself un- 
conscious. Sully, Westminster Kev., new ser., XLIX. 151. 
allonget (a-lunj')i r. *. [< F. allonger, earlier 
alonger, alongier, alungier, lengthen, = It. al- 
longare, allungare, < ML. 'allongare, "allon- 
giare,<. L. ad, to, + ML. 'longare, longiare 
(> OF. longier, loigner), make long, < L. longus, 
> OF. long, lung, long: see long 1 and allonge, 
n.} To make a pass or thrust with a rapier; 
lunge. 
allonge (a-lunj'), . [< F. allonge, OF. alonge, 
lengthening, extension, < alonger: see allonge, v., 
and abbrev. lunge.'] If. A pass or thrust with 
a sword or rapier ; a lunge. 2f. A long rein, 
when a horse is trotted iu the hand. Bailey. 
3. (Pron.asF., a-16nzh'.) A slip of paper at- 
tached to a bill of exchange or other negotiable 
note, to receive indorsements when the back 
of the bill will hold no more ; a rider. In Great 
Britain, where bills of exchange must be written on stamped 
paper, the allonge is considered part of the document, and 
does not require to be stamped. Allonge wig, a name 
given to the large and flowing periwig of the time of 
Louis XIV. 
allonym (al'o-nim), n. [= F. allonyme, < Gr. 
d/Uof, other, + 6vo/w, ^Eolic bm/ia, name: see 
onym.} A name other than the true one; an 
alias; a pseudonym. [Rare.] 
allonyinous (a-lon'i-mus), a. [As allonym + 
-ous. Cf. anonymous.'} Bearing a feigned name : 
as, an allonymous publication. [Rare.] 
alloot (a-lo'). An old form of halloo. 
allopath (al'o-path), n. [= F. allopathe; a re- 
verse formation < allopathy, F. allopathic: see 
allopathy.} An allopathist; one who favors or 
practises allopathy. 
allopathetic (al"o-pa-thet'ik), a. [< allopathy, 
after pathetic, q. v.] Pertaining to allopathy. 
[Rare.] 
allopathetically (al'o-pa-thet'i-kal-i), adv. In 
a manner conformable to allopathy. 
allopathic (al-o-path'ik), a. Pertaining to al- 
lopathy. A rare equivalent is heteropathic. 
There are only three imaginable methods of employing 
medicines against disease, and these are denominated 
antipathic, homoeopathic, and allopathic. 
Pereira, Materia Medica. 
allopathist (a-lop'a-thist), . [< allopathy + 
-ist.} One who practises medicine according 
to the principles and rules of allopathy ; an al- 
lopath. 
allopathy (a-lop'a-thi), n. [=F. allopathic = 
G. allopathic (Hahneinann), with a forced mod. 
sense (in form like Gr. aMoirMaa, the state of 
an aAAoTroft/c, < aAAoTraftfa, having influence on 
another; in grammar, transitive, non-reflexive), 
< Gr. dAAof, other, different, + irdBof, suffering, 
feeling, condition : see pathos. Cf . homeopathy. } 
In med., a therapeutic method characterized by 
the use of agents producing effects different from 
the symptoms of the disease treated. See home- 
opathy. The name is incorrectly applied, in distinction 
from homeopathy, to the traditional school (also called the 
"regular " or "old " school) of medicine, which opposes the 
homeopathic theory. Sometimes called heteropathy. 
allophanate (a-lof'a-nat), n. [< allophanic + 
-ateX] A salt of allophanic acid. 
allophane (al'o-fan), . [< Gr. dAAofavfc, ap- 
pearing otherwise, < dAAof, other, + -^xzw/f, ap- 
pearing, < ipaheaBai, appear.] A mineral of a 
pale-blue, and sometimes of a green or brown, 
color. It is a hydrosilicate of aluminium, occurring in 
amorphous, botryoidal, or reniform masses, and received 
its name from its change of appearance under the blowpipe. 
allophanic (al-o-fan'ik), a. [< Gr. aMoQavqf. 
see allophane and -j'c.] Pertaining to anything 
which changes its color or appearance : as, allo- 
phanic acid or ether. 
allophyle (al'o-fil), n. [< L. allophylus, < Gr. 
aA/w^uXof, of another tribe, < dAAof, other, -t- 
<t>v).j/, tribe: see phyte.} An alien ; one of an- 
other tribe or race. 
allophylian (al-6-nl'i-an), a. and . [< allo- 
phyle + -ian.} 1. a. Of another race ; foreign; 
strange : sometimes specifically applied to those 
languages of Europe and Asia which are non- 
Aryan and non-Semitic, and are also called 
Turanian. 
Instances from allophylian mythology show types which 
are found developed in full vigour by the Aryan races. 
E. B. Tylor, Prim. Culture, II. 243. 
II. . One of another tribe or race, 
allophylic (al-o-nl'ik), a. Same as allophylian. 
Another indication of a former allophyhc population in 
that valley. The Amencan, IX. 105. 
150 
allophytoid (a-lof'i-toid), n. [< Gr. aAAof, other, 
+ tyvrov, plant, + eMof, form.] An abnormal 
form of buds, with fleshy scales becoming de- 
tached and forming new plants, as the bulblets 
of the tiger-lily, offshoots from bulbs, etc. [Not 
used. ] 
alloplast (al'o-plast), n. [< Gr. dAAof, other, -f 
TTAaorof, verbal adj. of vfaiooav, form, mold.] In 
Haeckel's terminology of morphology, an idor- 
gan composed of two or more different tissues : 
the opposite of homoplast. The alloplasts include, 
as subdivisions, idomeres, autimeres, and metameres. Also 
rulk-il alfn'nrt/an, 
alloposid (a-lop'o-sid), n. One of the Attoposi- 
d<r. 
Alloposidse (al-o-pos'i-de), n.pl. [NL.,(Allopo- 
sus + -ida;.} A'family of octopod cephalopoda, 
represented by the genus Alloposus. It is charac- 
terized by an ovoid unless body, tapering arms connected 
by a moderate web, and a mantle united directly to the 
head, not only by a large dorsal commissure, but also by 
a median ventral and two lateral longitudinal commis- 
sures which run from its inner surface to the basal parts 
of the siphon. 
Alloposus (a-lop'o-sus), n. [NL., < Gr. AW-of, 
different, various, + v&ao^, of a certain (indefi- 
nite) quantity or magnitude, here equiv. to ' in- 
definite.'] A genus of cuttlefishes, typical of 
the family Alloposidee, in which the body is very 
soft, and consequently somewhat indefinite or 
variable in form. 
alloquial (a-16'kwi-al), a. [As alloguy + -aJ, 
after colloquial.} Of the nature of address; 
pertaining to or characterized by the act of 
talking to others, as distinguished from con- 
versing with them. [Bare.] 
There are no such people endured or ever heard of in 
France as allotjuial wits ; people who talk to, but not with, 
a circle. De Quincey, Style, i. 
alloquialism (a-16'kwi-aHzm), n. [< alloquial 
+ -ism.} A phrase or manner of speech used 
in addressing. N. E. D. 
alloquyt (al'o-kwi), n. [< L. alloquium, adlo- 
quium, < allo'qui, adloqui, speak to, address: 
see allocution. Cf. colloquy, soliloquy, and 06- 
loquy.} The act of speaking to another or 
others; an address. 
Allorhina (al-o-ri'na), n. [NL., < Gr. dAAof. 
other, + pif, piv, nose.] A genus of lamelli- 
corn beetles (Scarabwidee), belonging to the 
tribe Cetoniini, readily distinguished by the 
fact that the epimera of the mesothorax are 
visible from above as a triangularpiece between 
the prothorax and the elytra, a character of 
rare occurrence in Coleoptera. The scutellum is 
covered by a prolongation of tlie base of the prothorax. 
The best-known species is A. nitida (Linnaeus), very com- 
mon in the more southern United States. It is a green 
velvety insect, nearly an inch long, of nearly square form, 
somewhat pointed in front, with the sides of the thorax 
allotropy 
a public company. 2. To grant; assign; ap- 
propriate : as, to allot a sum of money for some 
specific purpose. 
There is an endless variety of personal force and char- 
acter secured through the proportion of powers which 
creative wisdom allots. Progressive Orthodoxy, p. 18. 
One of the largest wigwams was allotted to the Jesuit 
missionaries. Bancroft, Hist. U. S., I. 1H& 
3. To appoint; destine; set apart. 
Happier the man whom favourable stars 
Allot thee for his lovely bedfellow ! 
Shak., T. of the S., Iv. 5. 
All its allotted length of days 
The flower ripens in its place. 
Tennyson, Choric Song. 
= Syn. Dispense, Distribute, etc. See dispense. 
allotheism (al'o-the-izm), n. [< Gr. dAAof, other, 
+ 0eoV, god, + -ism.} The worship of other or 
strange gods. If. E. I). 
Allotheria (al-o-the'ri-a), n. pi. [NL., < Gr. 
d?.Aof, other, + ffr/piov, a wild beast.] An order 
of American Jurassic mammals proposed by 
Marsh in 1880 for the genera Plagiaulax, Ctena- 
codon, and possibly some others, having an 
inflected angle of the lower jaw, no mylohyoid 
groove, specialized premolars and molars, no 
canines, and teeth below the normal number: 
contrasted with Pantotheria. 
allotherian (al-o-the'ri-an), n. One of the Al- 
lotheria. 
allotment (a-lot'ment), n. 1. The act of allot- 
ting; distribution as by lot. 2. That which is 
allotted; a share, part, or portion granted or 
distributed ; that which is assigned by lot or by 
the act of God. 
The allotments of God and nature. 
L'Estrange. 
Allorhina nituta. 
a, larva ; b, pupa ; c, male beetle ; d, e,f, f, mandible, antenna, 
leg, and maxillary palpus of larva. 
and elytra usually brownish-yellow. It feeds upon the 
sap of wounded trees, but in dry summers it not rarely 
attacks cotton-bolls and ripe fruit of all sorts, thus doing 
considerable damage. Its larva feeds upon grass-roots, 
and is characterized by the numerous short and stiff hairs 
with which it is covered, and by means of which it is 
able, when placed upon its back, to move forward or 
backward with considerable velocity, 
allot (a-lof), v. t. ; pret. and pp. allotted, ppr. 
allotting. [Early mod. E. also alot, < OF. aloter, 
alloter (F. allotir), < a, to, + later, lotir, divide 
by lot, < lot, lot, adopted from Teut. : see lot.} 
1. To divide or distribute as by lot; distribute 
or parcel out; apportion: as, to allot shares in 
3. A place or piece of ground appropriated by 
lot or assignment. 
A vineyard and an allotment for olives. Broome. 
Allotment certificate, or letter of allotment, a docu- 
ment issued to an applicant for shares in a company or 
public loan, announcing the number of shares allotted or 
assigned to such applicant, and the amounts and due- 
dates of the calls, or different payments to be made on the 
same, etc. Allotment note, or allotment ticket, a 
document signed by a seaman authorizing his employers 
to pay periodically a part of his wages while on a voyage 
to some other person, as to his wife or parents. Allot- 
ment of goods, in coin., the division of a ship's cargo 
into several parts, which are to be purchased by different 
persons, each person's share being assigned by lot. Allot- 
ment Of land, the assignment of portions of ground to 
claimants on the division and inclosure of commons and 
waste lands. Allotment system, a practice sometimes 
followed in England of dividing a field or fields into lots 
or garden-plots, to be let out to agricultural laborers and 
other cottagers for cultivation on their own account. 
allotriophagy (a-lot-ri-of 'a-ji), n. [= F. allo- 
triophagie, < Gr. aM6rpiof', belonging to ano- 
ther (see allotrious), + -^ayia, < ^ayelv, eat.] In 
pathol., a depraved appetite for eating sub- 
stances of a non-alimentary or noxious charac- 
ter, as in many anemic and hysterical persons. 
allotrious (a-lot'ri-us), a. [< Gr. a/.AoTpiof, be- 
longing to another, < aAAof, other: see allo-.} 
Belonging to another; alien Allotrious factor, 
in math., in the algorism of common measure of two alge- 
braic expressions, the factor from which a remainder or 
quotient must be freed in order to make it an integral and 
irreducible function. 
allotrope (al'o-trop), n. [< Gr. dAAorpoTrof, in 
another manner: see allotropy.} One of the 
forms in which an element having the property 
of allotropy exists : thus, the diamond is an allo- 
trope of carbon. 
allotropic (al-o-trop'ik), a. Relating to or 
characterized by allotropy. 
Sulphur and phosphorus (both, in small proportions, 
essential constituent* of organic matter) have allotropic 
modifications. H. Spencer, Prin. of Biol., 1. 
allotropical (al-o-trop'i-kal), a. Same as allo- 
tropic. 
allotropically (al-o-trpp'i-kal-i), adv. In an 
allotropic manner; with change of physical 
properties, but without change of substance. 
allotropicity (aFo-tro-pis'i-ti), . [< allotropic 
+ -ity.} The quality or capacity of assuming 
different physical properties while remaining 
the same in substance. See allotropy. 
allotropism (a-lot'ro-pizm), n. [As allotropy + 
-ism.} Allotropical variation ; allotropy. 
Allotropism being interpretable as some change of molec- 
ular arrangement, this frequency of its occurrence among 
the component* of organic matter is significant as imply- 
ing a further kind of molecular mobility. 
H. Spencer, Prin. of Biol., 1. 
allotropize (a-lot'ro-piz), v. t. ; pret. and pp. 
allotropiied, ppr. allotropiring. [As allotropy + 
-ize.} To render allotropic. 
allotropy (a-lot'ro-pi), n. [=F. allotropie, < Gr. 
aUorpoTria, variety, < iMoTpoiroc,, in another 
way, < iAXof, other, + rpoVof, way, manner, 
