Al`ex*an"drine (?; 277), a. Belonging to Alexandria; Alexandrian. Bancroft.
Al`ex*an"drine (&?;), n. [F. alexandrin.] A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables.
The needless Alexandrine ends the song,
That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Pope.
{ A*lex`i*phar"mac (&?;), A*lex`i*phar"ma*cal (&?;), } a. & n. [See Alexipharmic.] Alexipharmic. [Obs.]
{ A*lex`i*phar"mic (&?;), A*lex`i*phar"mic*al (&?;), } a. [Gr. &?; keeping off poison; &?; to keep off + &?; drug, poison: cf. F. alexipharmaque.] (Med.) Expelling or counteracting poison; antidotal.
A*lex`i*phar"mic (&?;), n. (Med.) An antidote against poison or infection; a counterpoison.
A*lex`i*py*ret"ic (&?;), a. [Gr. &?; + &?; burning heat, fever, &?; fire.] (Med.) Serving to drive off fever; antifebrile. -- n. A febrifuge.
{ A*lex`i*ter"ic (&?;), A*lex`i*ter"ic*al (&?;), } a. [Gr. &?; fit to keep off or help, fr. &?; one who keeps off, helper; &?; to keep off: cf. F. alexitère.] (Med.) Resisting poison; obviating the effects of venom; alexipharmic.
A*lex`i*ter"ic, n. [Gr. &?; a remedy, an amulet: cf. F. alexitère, LL. alexiterium.] (Med.) A preservative against contagious and infectious diseases, and the effects of poison in general. Brande & C.
||Al"fa (&?;) or Al"fa grass" (&?;), n. A plant (Macrochloa tenacissima) of North Africa; also, its fiber, used in paper making.
Al*fal"fa (&?;), n. [Sp.] (Bot.) The lucern (Medicago sativa); -- so called in California, Texas, etc.
Al"fe*nide (&?;), n. (Metal.) An alloy of nickel and silver electroplated with silver.
||Al*fe"res (&?;), n. [Sp., fr. Ar. al- frs knight.] An ensign; a standard bearer. [Obs.] J. Fletcher.
Al"fet, n. [LL. alfetum, fr. AS. lfæt a pot to boil in; l burning + fæt vat.] A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.
||Al*fil`a*ri"a (&?;), n. (Bot.) The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California.
||Al`fi*o"ne (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) An edible marine fish of California (Rhacochilus toxotes).
||Al*fres"co (&?;), adv. & a. [It. al fresco in or on the fresh.] In the open-air. Smollett.
||Al"ga (&?;), n.; pl. Algæ (&?;). [L., seaweed.] (Bot.) A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervæ, etc.
Al"gal (&?;), a., (Bot.) Pertaining to, or like, algæ.
||Al`ga*ro"ba (&?;), n. [Sp. algarroba, fr. Ar. al-kharr&?;bah. Cf. Carob.] (Bot.) (a) The Carob, a leguminous tree of the Mediterranean region; also, its edible beans or pods, called St. John's bread. (b) The Honey mesquite (Prosopis juliflora), a small tree found from California to Buenos Ayres; also, its sweet, pulpy pods. A valuable gum, resembling gum arabic, is collected from the tree in Texas and Mexico.
{ Al"ga*rot (&?;), Al"ga*roth (&?;), } n. [F. algaroth, fr. the name of the inventor, Algarotti.] (Med.) A term used for the Powder of Algaroth, a white powder which is a compound of trichloride and trioxide of antimony. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic, purgative, and diaphoretic.
||Al`ga*ro*vil"la (&?;), n. The agglutinated seeds and husks of the legumes of a South American tree (Inga Marthæ). It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye.
{ Al"gate (&?;), Al"gates (&?;), } adv. [All + gate way. The s is an adverbial ending. See Gate.] 1. Always; wholly; everywhere. [Obs.]
Ulna now he algates must forego.
Spenser.