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Show I AL A God himfelf is with us for out captain, and hi priefts with founding trumpets, to cry alarm Chrons xiiis 12 againft you The trampets loud clangour Excites us to arms With fhrill notes of anger And mortal alarms Dryden Taught by this ftroke, renounce the wars a/arins And learn to tremble at the name of arms Pope's Iliad 2. A cry, or notice, of any danger approaching ; as, an alarm of fire 3. Any tumult or difturbance rha fe Alas] both for the deed, and d forfo the cauMi ton DAY AvLAs TH day unhapp A interject Ah inlerjedt WHILE enemy ‘The wafp the hive alarm With louder hums, and with unequal arms Addifon 3. T furprife with the apprehenfion o any danger When rage mifguides me, or when fear alarms When pain diftrefles, or when pleafure charms Tickell 4. To difturb in general His fon, Cupavo, brufh'd the briny flood Upon his ftern a brawny Centaur ftood Who heav'd a rock, and threat'ning {till to throw With lifted hands, a/arm'd the feas below. Dryden ALA'RMBELL. 7. /i [from alarm and bell. The bell that is rung at the approac of an enemy Th® alarmbell rings from our Alhambra walls And, from the ftreets, found drums and ataballes Dryden particip. adj, [from alarm. ALs'RMING Terrifying ; : awaker}ing 3 furpnfing as, an alarming meflage ; an alarmin pain AvLa'rRmrosT. 7./i [from: alarm and poft. The poft or place appointed to each bod of men to appear at, when an alar thall happen Avra'rum. z./. [corrupted, as it feems See ALarwM. from alarm Now are our brows bound with vi€torious wreaths Our bruifed arms hung up for monuments Our ftern alarums chang'd to merry mectings Shakefpedre That Almatro might better bear = She fets a drum at either ear And loud or gentle harfh or {weet Ave but th' alarums which they beat 7o ALa'ruM alarm. Prior @. a. [corrupted from Z See ALarwm ‘Withered murde ( Alarun'd by his fentinel the wolf Whofe how!'s his watch) thus with his ftealthy pac Shakelpeare Moves like a ghoft AvLa's. interjedt. [helas, Fr. eylaes, Dutch. 1. A word exprefling lamentation we ufe it of ourfelves whe But yet, alas! O but yet, alas ! our haps be bu hard haps Sidney Alas, how little from the grave we claim Thou but preferv'ft a form, and I a name. Pgpe 2. A word of pity, when ufed of other perfons Al i thoug though ; ' notwithftanding thould be Ne wou'd he fuffer fleep once thitherwar Approach, albe his drowfy den was next, Spenfer This very thing is caufe fufficient, why dutie belonging to each kind of virtue, albeit the law o reafon teach them, fhould, notwithftanding, b Hooker prefcribed even by human law One whofe eyes Albeit unufed to the melting mood meet with thieves in fuch a road, thinks himfel to have reafon enough to decline it, a/beit he is fur to fuftain fome lefs, though yet confiderable, inconvenience by his fo doing Soutl's Sermons Avreuci'~vEous. adj. [albugo, Lat.] Refembling the white of an egg Eggs will freeze in the albugineons part thereof Brown's Vulgar Errours I opened it by incifion, giving vent firft to a albugineous, then to white conco¢ted matter : upo which the tumour funk Wileman's Surgery ALBUGO. . /. [Lat.] A difeafe in th eye, by which the cornea contra&ts whitenefs The fame with lexcoma A'LBURN COLOUR. 7. /i See AUBURN n / A Arabic word t exprefs, an univerfal diffolvent, pretended to by Paracelfus and Helmont Quincy Arcasp. #. /. [from al, Arab. an Ip7p, the head. 1. In Barbary, the governour of a caftle Th® alcai Shuns me, and, with a grim civility Bows, and declines my walks 2. .I Spain th judg infufe Dryden of a city acid liquors in water firf and a red i The root of alcanna, though green, will give are ftain. Brown's Vulgar Erronrs whe AvLcuy'MICAL. adj. [from alchymy.] Relating to alchymy ; produced by alchymy Thus faith, the Lord God, fmite with thin hand, and ftamp with thy foot, and fay, Alas The rofe-noble, then current for fix fhilling and eight pence, the alchymifts do affirm as a unwritten verity, was made by projeion or mul Alas! poor Protheus, thou haft entertain' Shake/p A fox to be the thepherd of thy lambs g wor of forro an concern ufed of things for all the evil abominations of the houfe of Ifrael Ezckiel tiplicatio alchymical of Raymon tower of London the fcience o change ; and after it has been divided by corrofiy liquors int invifibl parts yet ma prefently b precipitated, fo as to appear in its own form ALCHYMY 1 Th mor 7 £ [of ol ey Grew fublim and occult part o chymiftry, which propofes for its obje the tran{mutation of metals, and othe important operations Ther is nothin mor dangerous than thi deluding art, which changeth the meaning o words, as alchymy doth, or would do, the fub ftance of metals; maket lifteth, and bringeth thing of any thing what j in the end, all truth to no Haoker O he fits high in all the people's hearts And that which would appear offence in us Shakefp Lully in th Camden's Remains Fulius Ctt‘fllf' Compared to this All honour's mimick, all wealth alchymy Done 2. A kind of mixed metal ufed for {poons and kitchen utenfils _ White alchymy is made of pan-brafs one pound and arfenicum three ounces ; or alchymy is:mad of copper and auripigmentum Bacon's Phyfical Remain They bid cry With trumpets regal found, the great refult Tow'rds the four winds, four fpeedy cherubim Put to their mouths the founding alchymy 'By herald's voice explain'd Milton's Paradife Lo A'LCOHOL . /. An Arabick ter ufed by chymifts for a high reftifie dephlegmated fpirit of wine, or for an thing reduced into an impalpable powder - Quingy If the fame falt fhall be reduced into alcohdl as the chymifts fpeak or a impalpable powder the particles and intercepted fpaces will be extremely leflened Shf Boyle Sal volatile oleofum will coagulate the ferum o account of the alcobol, or rectified fpirit which i contains Arbuthnot Avconoriza'rion inftituted by the Saracens Du Cange ALCANNA. n. /. An Egyptian plan ufed in dying; the leaves making ye}low [from alc/:_ymy.} '8{;' Will change to virtue and to worthinefs. Shakefpeare Their medicinal gum He, who has a probable belief that he fhal A'LcaHEST 7. / His countenance, like richeft a/chymy as faft as the Arabian tree Drop tears Cy The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold Shakefp. Every alchymift knows, that go{g &Iv{l{l,l'ge'z;fi: a vehement fire for a long time withoyt an Spenfer Skinner. all be it fo To folemnize this day, the glorious fu Stays in his courfe, and plays the alchymift Turning, with fplendour of his precious eye _ All as the fheep, fuch was the fhepherd's look For pale and wan he was (‘alas the awhile ! May feem he lov'd, or elfe fome care he took ALB‘E'IT. who purfues or profefle alchymy happy time no long time ago Avs. . /. [album, Lat.] A furplice; white linen veftment worn by priefts. adw. [a coalition of the word ArLBE In the manner of an alc ymfi{ A'rLcayMIST un Lately [from 4%"" Raymond Lully would prove it alcbymimlly ca a o t t p r h i g d m you hav a f h h t w u i k m {l i you blame her Congreve TH adv by means of alchymy p e a S e u c h v g v n ‘zlas the da f r f m o p m e i r v h y Alas a day o Ara'rwm. v. a. [from alarm, the noun. 1. To call to arms 2. To difturb ; as, with the approach of ' ALA'TE. adv. [from a and /at;. a mical. Alas! for pity of this bloody field Piteous indeced muft be, when I, a fpirit e y D e w n m h o n f {u Can have f ALA Crowds of rivals, for thy mother's charms Thy palace fill with infults and a/arms Pope's Odyffey ALCHY MICALLY z [from alcob lize.] 'The a& of alcoholizing or rectifying fpirits; or of reducing bodie _to an impalpable powder 70 A'LcOHOLIZE., w. a ¥, '_F_o make an alcohol [from alcohol. that is, to rec tify fpirits till they are wholly dephlegmated z. To comminute powder till it is wholl _without roughnefs A'LcoraN. . f [a/ and koran, Arab. The book of the Mahometan precept and credenda If this would fatisfy the confcience, we migh not only take the prefent covenant, but fubferib to the council of Trent ; yea, and to the Turkif alcoran 5 and fivear to maintoin and defend eithe of the Saunderfon againft the Covenant ALCOV |