Align :: Align (v. t.) To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line; to aline.

Align :: Align (v. t.) To form in line; to fall into line.

Alignment :: Alignment (n.) The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also, the line of adjustment; esp., an imaginary line to regulate the formation of troops or of a squadron..

Alignment :: Alignment (n.) The ground-plan of a railway or other road, in distinction from the grades or profile..

Allignment :: Allignment (n.) See Alignment.

Coerulignone :: Coerulignone (n.) A bluish violet, crystalline substance obtained in the purification of crude wood vinegar. It is regarded as a complex quinone derivative of diphenyl; -- called also cedriret..

Lign-aloes :: Lign-aloes (n.) Aloes wood, or agallochum. See Agallochum..

Lign-aloes :: Lign-aloes (n.) A fragrant tree mentioned in the Bible.

Ligneous :: Ligneous (a.) Made of wood; consisting of wood; of the nature of, or resembling, wood; woody..

Ligniferous :: Ligniferous (a.) Yielding or producing wood.

Lignification :: Lignification (n.) A change in the character of a cell wall, by which it becomes harder. It is supposed to be due to an incrustation of lignin..

Lignified :: Lignified (imp. & p. p.) of Lignif.

Ligniform :: Ligniform (a.) Like wood.

Lignify :: Lignify (v. t.) To convert into wood or into a ligneous substance.

Lignify :: Lignify (v. i.) To become wood.

Lignifying :: Lignifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lignif.

Lignin :: Lignin (n.) A substance characterizing wood cells and differing from cellulose in its conduct with certain chemical reagents.

Ligniperdous :: Ligniperdous (a.) Wood-destroying; -- said of certain insects.

Lignireose :: Lignireose (n.) See Lignin.

Lignite :: Lignite (n.) Mineral coal retaining the texture of the wood from which it was formed, and burning with an empyreumatic odor. It is of more recent origin than the anthracite and bituminous coal of the proper coal series. Called also brown coal, wood coal..

Lignitic :: Lignitic (a.) Containing lignite; resembling, or of the nature of, lignite; as, lignitic clay..

Lignitiferous :: Lignitiferous (a.) Producing or containing lignite; lignitic.

Lignoceric :: Lignoceric (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the formic acid series, found in the tar, wax, or paraffine obtained by distilling certain kinds of wood, as the beech..

Lignone :: Lignone (n.) See Lignin.

Lignose :: Lignose (a.) Alt. of Lignou.

Lignose :: Lignose (n.) See Lignin.

Lignose :: Lignose (n.) An explosive compound of wood fiber and nitroglycerin. See Nitroglycerin.

Lignous :: Lignous (a.) Ligneous.

Lignum Rhodium :: Lignum rhodium () The fragrant wood of several shrubs and trees, especially of species of Rhodorhiza from the Canary Islands, and of the West Indian Amyris balsamifera..

Lignum-vitae :: Lignum-vitae (n.) A tree (Guaiacum officinale) found in the warm latitudes of America, from which the guaiacum of medicine is procured. Its wood is very hard and heavy, and is used for various mechanical purposes, as for the wheels of ships' blocks, cogs, bearings, and the like. See Guaiacum..

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