2. Great; extreme; terrible. [Slang]

Poor Aroar can not live, and can not die, -- so that he is in an almighty fix.

De Quincey.

The Almighty, the omnipotent God. Rev. i. 8.

Alm"ner (&?;), n. An almoner. [Obs.] Spenser.

Alm"ond (ä"mnd), n. [OE. almande, almaunde, alemaunde, F. amande, L. amygdala, fr. Gr. 'amygda`lh: cf. Sp. almendra. Cf. Amygdalate.] 1. The fruit of the almond tree.

The different kinds, as bitter, sweet, thin-shelled, thick- shelled almonds, and Jordan almonds, are the products of different varieties of the one species, Amygdalus communis, a native of the Mediterranean region and western Asia.

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