ALL 
bably reliflied by beads in a more exqnifite degree than they 
are by inert; for they tafte them lincere and pure, without 
mixture or alloy. Atterbury. 
ALL'-SEEt>, f. in botany. See Linum and Cheno- 
P ODIUM. 
ALL'-SPICE, f. in botany. See Myrtus. 
ALLUBE'SCENCY, J'. [ allubefccntia, Lat.] Willing- 
nefs; content. 
To ALLU'DE, v. n. [ alludir , Sp. and It. of alludo, Lat, 
of ad, to, and ludo, to play.] To have fome reference to 
a thing, without the direct mention of it; to hint at; to 
inlinuate. It is ufed of perfons ; as, He alludes to an old 
dory: or of things; as, The lampoon alludes to his mo¬ 
ther’s faults. 
AL'LUM. See A'lum. 
ALLU'MINOR, f. [allumer, Fr. to light.] One who 
colours or paints upon paper or parchment; bccaufe he 
gives graces, light, and ornament, to the letters or figures 
coloured. 
To ALLU'RE, v.a. \Jeurcr, Fr. looreu, Dut. beleercn. 
Sax.] To entice to any thing, whether good or bad ; to 
draw towards any thing by enticement.—Unto laws that 
men make for the benefit of men, it hath feemed always 
needful to add rewards, which may more allure unto good, 
than any hardnefs deterreth from it; and punifhments, 
which may more deter from evil, than any fweetnefs there¬ 
to allurcth. Hooker. 
The golden fun, in fplendour likeft heav’n, 
Allur'd his eye. Milton. 
ALLU'RE, f. Something fet up to entice birds, or 
Other things, to it. We now write lure. 
ALLU'REMENT, f. [from allure.-] That which al- 
tyres, or has the force of alluring ; enticement; tempta¬ 
tion of pleafure : 
To fhun th’ allurement is not hard 
To minds refolv’d, forewarn’d, and well prepar’d ; 
But wond’rous difficult, when once befet, 
To druggie thro’ the draits, and break th’ involving net. 
Dryden. 
ALLU'RER,yi The perfon that allures ; enticer; in- 
veigler. 
ALLU'RINGLY, adv. In an alluring manner; en¬ 
ticingly. 
ALLU'RINGNESS, f. The quality of alluring or en¬ 
ticing; invitation; temptation by propofmg pleafure. 
ALLU'SION, f. [ alluf.on , Fr. allufionc, It. alli'fion, Sp. 
of allufio, Lat. of allujum, flip, of alludo, ad, to, and ludo, 
to play.] That which is fpoken with reference to fome- 
thing fuppofed to be already known, and therefore not 
exprefled; a hint; an implication. It has the particle to. 
—Exprefiions now out of ufe, allufions to cuftoms lod to 
us, and various particularities, mud needs continue feve- 
ral padages in the dark. Locke. 
ALLU'SIVE, adj. [, alludo, allvfum, Lat.] Hinting at 
fomething not fully expreffed.—Where the expreilion in 
one place is plain, and the fenfe affixed to it agreeable to 
the proper force of the w'ords, and no negative objection 
requires us to depart from it ; and the expreilion, in the 
Other, is figurative or cllufroc, and the dodtrine, deduced 
from it, liable to great objeflions; it is reafonable, in this 
latter place, to redrain the extent of the figure and allu- 
fion to a confidency with the former. Rogers. 
ALLU'SIVELY, adv. In an alluuve manner ; by im¬ 
plication ; by infinuation.—The jewifii nation, that re¬ 
jected and crucified our Saviour, within the compafs of 
one generation, were, according to his prediction, de- 
droyed by the Romans, and preyed upon by thole eagles 
(Macc. xxiv. 28.) by which, allufively, are noted the Roman 
armies, whofe enlign was the eagle. Hammond. 
ALLU'SlVENESS,yi The quality of being allufive. 
ALLU'VION, f. { alluvio, Lat. of ad, to, and luo, to 
walk.] The carrying of any tiling to fomething elfe by the 
motion of the water. The thing carried by water to fome¬ 
thing elfe. 
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Ai.luvion, inlaw, is the w a filing of the fea or of a 
river; in which cafe the law is, that if land be gained 
of the lea by wafiiing up of fand and earth, by fmall and 
imperceptible degrees, fo as in time' to make it terra jirma r 
it (hall go to the owner of the land adjoining; but, if the 
alluvion be hidden and confiderable, it belongs to. the 
king by his prerogative : fo that the quantity of the ground 
gained, and the time during which it is gaining, are v,'hat 
make it either the king’s or the fubjecl’s property. In 
the fame manner, if a river, running betw een two lord- 
fiiips, by degrees gaineth upon one of them, and leaves 
the other dry; the owner who lofeth his ground thus im¬ 
perceptibly has no remedy : but if the courfe of the river 
be changed by a hidden and violent flood, or other halty 
means, and thereby a man lofeth his ground, he (hall have 
what the river has leit in another place, as a recompenfe 
for this hidden lofs. 2 Black. 262. 
ALLU'VIOUS, adj. That which is carried by water to 
another place, and lodged upon fomething elfe. 
To ALLY', v. a. \allier, Fr.] To unite by kindred, 
friendfliip, or confederacy. To make a relation between 
two things, by fimilitude, refemblance, orany othermeans. 
ALLY', f. [allie, Fr.] One united by fome means of 
connexion ; as marriage, friendfliip, confederacy.—We 
could hinder the acceflion of Holland to France, either as 
bibjefts, with great immunities for the encouragement of 
trade, or as an inferior and dependent ally under their 
protection. Temple. 
ALMACAR'RON, a Tea-port town of Spain, in the 
province of Murcia, at ihe month of the river Guada- 
lantin. It is about twenty miles well of Carthagena, and 
is remarkable for the prodigious quantity of alum found 
in its territory. Lat. 37. -70. N. Ion. 1. 15. Wi. 
ALMA'DE, a town of Spain, in the province of La 
Mancha, in the kingdom of Cafiile, fituated upon the top 
of a mountain, where are the moll ancient as well as the 
richetl (liver mines in Europe. 
AL'MADIE, f. a kind of canoe, or fmall veffel, about 
four fathoms long, commonly made of bark, and ufed by 
the negroes of Africa. 
Al'madie, A* > s alfo the name of a kind of long-boats, 
fitted out at Calicut, which are eighty feet in length, and 
fix or feven in breadth. They are exceedingly fvvift, and 
are otherwife called cathuri. 
AL'MAGEST,A the name of a celebrated book corn- 
poled by Ptolemy; being a collection of a great number 
of the obfervations and problems of the ancients, relating 
to geometry and aftronomy, but efpecially the latter. And 
being the firft work of this kind which has come down to 
11s, and containing a catalogue of the fixed liars,'with their 
places, befides numerous records and obfervations ofeclip- 
fes, the motions of the planets, &c. this work w ill ever 
be held dear and valuable to the cultivators of aftronomy. 
In the original Greek it is called c-wra A; p-syirr;, the 
great compofition or colleflion. And to the word jweyirj;, 
mcgijle, the Arabians joined the particle al, and thence 
called it Almagkejli, or, as we call it, from them, the Al- 
mageft. Ptolemy wrote this book at Alexandria in Egypt, 
where the Arabians found it on the capture of that king¬ 
dom. It was by them tranflated out of Greek into Ara¬ 
bic, by order of the caliph Almaimon, about the year 827 5 
and firfi: into Latin about 1230, by favour of the emperor 
Frederic II. The Greek text was not known in Europe 
till the beginning of the 15th century, when it was brought 
from Conftantinople by George, a monk of Trabezond, 
who tranflated it into Latin, which tranflation has feveral 
times been publiflied. Riccioli, an Italian jefuit, alfo pub- 
liflied, in 1651, a body of aftronomy; which, in imitation 
of Ptolemy, he called “ Almageftunt Novum,” the New 
Almageft; being a large collection of ancient and modem 
obfervations and difeoveries in the fcience of aftronomy. 
ALMA'GRA, f. a fine deep red ochre, with fome ad¬ 
mixture of purple, very heavy, and of a denfe yet friable 
ftruCture, and rough dufty furface. It adheres very firmly 
to the tongue, melts freely and eafily in the mouth, is of 
an 
