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root to be moifly you mu ft let them lie out of the ground 
in a fliady dry place fix or eight days to dry before they 
are planted, otherwife they are very fubjeCt to rot. Af¬ 
ter planting, let them remain in a fliady place (as was 
before directed in Ihifting tire old plants) for a fortnight, 
when you fliould remove the tender kinds to a very mo¬ 
derate hot-bed, plunging the pots therein, which will 
greatly facilitate their taking new root; but obferve to 
fliade the glalfes in the middle of the day, and to give 
them a great lliare of air. Toward the middle of Au- 
guft, begin to harden thefe young plants, by taking off 
the glades in good weather, and by railing them at other 
times with props, that the air may freely enter the bed, 
which is absolutely neceflary for their growth, and to pre¬ 
pare them to be removed into the hotile, which mult be 
done toward the end of September, and they mull then be 
managed as was before directed for the old plants. The 
African aloes, for the molt part, afford plenty of fuckers, 
by which they are increafed; but thole few that do not, 
may be, molt of them, propagated by taking off fome of 
the under leaves, laying them to dry for ten days or a fort¬ 
night, as was directed for the offsets; then plant them in 
the fame foil as was directed for them, putting that part 
of the leaf which adhered to the old plant, about an inch, 
or an inch and a half, (according to the lize of the leaf,) 
into the earth, giving them a little water to fettle the earth 
about them; then plunge the pots into a moderate hot¬ 
bed, obferving to fcreen them from the violence of the 
fun, and give them gentle refrefhings with water once a 
week: the belt feafon for this is in June, that they may 
pu-fli out heads before winter. 
Cultivation of the Aloe in the If and of Barbadscs. The 
lands within two or three miles of the fea, which arefub- 
je£I to drought, and are fo ftony and (hallow as not to admit 
of the planting fugar-canes with any profpect of fuccefs„ 
are generally found to anfv er belt for the aloe-plant. The 
(tones, at lead the larger ones, are fi.rft picked up, and 
either packed in heaps upon the molt (hallow barren fpots, 
or laid round the field as a dry fence. The land is then 
lightly ploughed, and very carefully cleared of all noxious 
weeds, lined at one foot diltance from row to row, and 
the young plants fet, like cabbages, at about five or fix 
inches from each other. This regular mode of lining and 
felting the plants, is praCtil'ed only’ by the molt exact 
planters, in order to facilitate the weeding of them, by 
band, very frequently : becaufe, if they are not kept per¬ 
fectly clean, and free from weeds, the produce will be very 
fmall. They will bear being planted in any feafon of the 
ve.tr, even the dried, as they will live on the furfacc of 
the earth, for many weeks, without a drop of rain. 
Aloe,/I [oSrtt, Heb. as it is fuppofed.] A precious 
wood 11 fed, in the Ead, for perfumes, of which the bed 
fort is of higher price than gold, and was the mod valu¬ 
able prefent given by the king of Siam, in 1686, to the king 
of France. It is called tambac, and is the heart or inner- 
mod part of the aloe-tree; the next part to which is called 
calembac , which is fometimes imported into Europe, and, 
though of inferior value to the tambac, is much edeemed. 
The part next the bark is termed, by the Portuguefe, pao 
d'aquila, or eagle-wood; but fome account the eagle-wood 
not the outer part of the tambac, but another fpecies. Our 
knowledge of this wood is yet very imperfect. 
A lo e Afric ana,/! in botany. See Crassu la. 
Ai.oe American a, f in botany. See Agave. 
A loe purpurea,/! in botany. See Dracaena. 
Ai.oe uvaria ,/i in botany. See Aletris. 
Aioe yuccas foi.iis, yi in botany. See Yucca. 
ALOK'TICAL, adj. Confiding chiefly of aloes. 
A-LOE'TIC,y! Any medicine which chiefly confids of 
aloes. 
ALOE'US, in fabulous hidory, a giant, fon of Titan 
and Terra, whole wife Iphimedia was raviflied by Nep¬ 
tune, and had two fons by him, Othus and Ephialtes. 
Aloeus educated them as his own, and hence they have 
been culled Aloides. 
A L 0 
ALO'FT,i adv. [ loffter, Dan. to lift up ; loft, air, Iceland- 
ifli; fo that aloft is, into the air.] On high ; above; in the 
air. A word ufed chiefly in poetry : 
For I have read in dories oft, 
That love has wings, and foars aloft. Suckling . 
Aloft, prep. Above: 
The great luminary 
Aloft the vulgar condellations thick, 
That from his lordly eye keep didance due, 
Difpenfes light from far. Milton. 
ALO'GIANS,yi in church-hidory, a feiSl of ancient 
heretics, who denied that Jefus Chrid was the Logos, and 
confequently rejected the gofpel of St. John. The word 
is compounded of the privative a and Aoyo?, q.d. without 
logos or word. Some aferibe the origin of the name, as 
well as of the feft, of Alogians, to Theodore of Byzan¬ 
tium, by trade a currier; who having apoltatifed under 
the perlecution of the emperor Severus, to defend him- 
felf again(1 thofe who reproached him therewith, faid, 
that it was not God he denied, but only man. Whence 
his followers were called in Greek aAoyoi, becaufe they re¬ 
jected the word. But others, with more probability, fup- 
pofe the name to have been fird given them by Epiphanius 
in the way of reproach. They made their appearance to¬ 
ward the dole of the feconcl century. 
A'LOGOS, a name given by the Egyptians to Typhon. 
ALOGO'TROPHY,/. [of a * 0 y©-, unreafonable, and 
rpotpri, food, Gr.] A dilproportionate nutriment, when 
one part of the body is nourilhed more or lefs than the other. 
ALO'IDES, two formidable giants in Homer, who were 
the larged and handfomelt men that were ever feen. At 
nine years of age they were thirty-lix cubits high, and 
nine thick ; and they grew every year a cubit in thicknefs, 
and an ell in height. Their prodigious bulk rendered them 
fo proud, that they undertook to dethrone Jupiter; but 
they were taken prifoners by Mars, who bound them in 
chains. They were afterwards delivered by Mercury; but 
at length were thrown into Tartarus by Jupiter. See 
Aloeus. 
A'LOGY,/! [aAsy'l&yGr.JUnreafonablenefs; abfurdity, 
ALO'NE, adj. [allecn, Du. from al and een, or one; 
that is, fugle.'] Without another.—God, by whofe alone 
power and confervation we all live, and move, and have 
ourbeing. Bentley. —Without company; folitary.—Eagles 
we fee fly alone, and they are but flieep which always herd 
together. Sidney. 
Better be alone, than in ill company. This proverb 
contains very wholefome advice ; for ill company is not 
only very tedious and troublefome while we partake of it, 
but often fatal in the confequences, whereas a good man 
is nunquam minusfolus quam cum folus. 
Alone, adv. This word is feldom ufed but with the 
word let, if even then it be an adverb. It implies fome¬ 
times an ironical prohibition, forbidding to help a man 
who is able to manage the affair himfelf: 
Let 11s alone to guard Corioli, 
If they fet down before’s; ’fore they remove, 
Bring up your army. Shakrfpeare. 
To forbear; to leave undone.—His client dole it, but he 
had better have let it alone ; for he loft his caufe by his jeft. 
Addifon. 
ALO'NG, adv. [au longue, Fr.] At length.—Through 
any fpace meafured lengthwife.—A firebrand carried along 
leaveth a train of light behind it. Bacon. —Throughout; 
in the whole: with all prefixed.—Solomon, all along in 
his Proverbs, gives the title of fool to a wicked man. Til- 
lotfon. —Joined with the particle with; jn company ; joined 
with.—Religious zeal is fubjeft to an excels, and to a de- 
fe£I, when fomething is mingled with it which it fliould 
not have; or when it wants fomething that ought to go 
along with it. Sprat. —Sometimes with is underftood : 
Command 
