Agalmatolite :: Agalmatolite (n.) A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite..

Alma :: Alma (n.) Alt. of Alma.

Alma Mater :: Alma Mater () A college or seminary where one is educated.

Almacantar :: Almacantar (n.) Same as Almucantar.

Almacantar :: Almacantar (n.) A recently invented instrument for observing the heavenly bodies as they cross a given almacantar circle. See Almucantar.

Almadia :: Almadia (n.) Alt. of Almadi.

Almadie :: Almadie (n.) A bark canoe used by the Africans.

Almadie :: Almadie (n.) A boat used at Calicut, in India, about eighty feet long, and six or seven broad..

Almagest :: Almagest (n.) The celebrated work of Ptolemy of Alexandria, which contains nearly all that is known of the astronomical observations and theories of the ancients. The name was extended to other similar works..

Almagra :: Almagra (n.) A fine, deep red ocher, somewhat purplish, found in Spain. It is the sil atticum of the ancients. Under the name of Indian red it is used for polishing glass and silver..

Almah :: Almah (n.) Same as Alme.

Almain :: Almain (n.) Alt. of Alma.

Alman :: Alman (n.) A German.

Alman :: Alman (adj.) German.

Alman :: Alman (adj.) The German language.

Alman :: Alman (adj.) A kind of dance. See Allemande.

Almanac :: Almanac (n.) A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and various statistics are often added, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc..

Almandine :: Almandine (n.) The common red variety of garnet.

Almayne :: Almayne (n.) Alt. of Alma.

Bipalmate :: Bipalmate (a.) Palmately branched, with the branches again palmated..

Dalmania :: Dalmania (n.) A genus of trilobites, of many species, common in the Upper Silurian and Devonian rocks..

Dalmanites :: Dalmanites (n.) Same as Dalmania.

Dalmatian :: Dalmatian (a.) Of or pertaining to Dalmatia.

Dalmatic :: Dalmatic (n.) A vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn at Mass by deacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; -- imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia..

Dalmatic :: Dalmatic (n.) A robe worn on state ocasions, as by English kings at their coronation..

Dalmatica :: Dalmatica (n.) Alt. of Dalmati.

Edriophthalma :: Edriophthalma (n. pl.) A group of Crustacea in which the eyes are without stalks; the Arthrostraca.

Fissipalmate :: Fissipalmate (a.) Semipalmate and loboped, as a grebe's foot. See Illust. under Aves..

Gymnophthalmata :: Gymnophthalmata (n. pl.) A group of acalephs, including the naked-eyed medusae; the hydromedusae. Most of them are known to be the free-swimming progeny (gonophores) of hydroids..

Halma :: Halma (n.) The long jump, with weights in the hands, -- the most important of the exercises of the Pentathlon..

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