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Show A ‘ALcO'VE A L u. f. [alcoba, Span.] A recefs or part of a chamber, feparated by a eftrade, or partition, and other correfpondent ornaments ; in which is place a bed of ftate, and {ometimes feats t entertain company T revoux The weary'd champion lull'd in foft alcoves The nobleft boaft of thy romantick groves Oft, if the mufe prefage, fhall he be fee Tickell [alnus, Lat. ing leaves refemblin thofe of the ha ~zel; the male flowers, or katkins, ar produced at remote diftances from th fruit, on the fame tree; the frui is {quamofe Th and of a conical figure {pecie are 1 Th commo o or in water Miller adj. fuperl elder an [from ald liewe dear be loved.] Moft beloved; which has hel the longeft poffeflion of the heart The mutual conference that my mind hath had In courtly company, or at my beads Malkes me the bolder A'LDERMAN man. 1. Th 7. / Shakefp. Henry V1. p. ii [from a/d, old, an {fame as f{enator, Cowell A go vernour or magiftrate, originally, a the name imports, chofen on accoun of the experience which his age had given him Tell him, myfelf, the mayor and a/dermen Are come to have fome conf'rence with his grace Shakefpeare Though my own aldermen conferr'd my bays To me committing their eternal praife Their full-fed heroes, gheir pacifick may'rs Their annual trophies, and their monthly wars Pope's Dunciad 2. In the following paflage it is, I think improperly ufed But if the trumpet's clangour you abhor And dare not be an alderman of war ‘Take to a thop, behind a counter lie Dryd. Fuv. Sat A'LDERMANLY. adv. [from alderman. Like an alderman ; belonging to a _alderman Thefe, and many more, fuffered death, in env to their virtues and fuperiour genius, which em boldened them, in exigencies (wanting an aldermanly difcretion) to attempt fervice out of th common forms A'LDERN adj [fro Sawift's Mifcellanies alder. Mad alder Then aldern boats firft plow'd the ocean merry -meetin ufe i We bring you now You refemble perfeétly the two alehoufe-keeper in Holland, who were at the fame time burgo mafters of the town, and taxed one another's bill alternately Letter to Savift A'LEKNIGHT. 7. /. [from ale and Fnight A pot-companion; a tippler; a wor now out of ufe Th A'LEBERRY. = /. [from ale and berry. A beverage made by boiling ale wit and fop of bread o May's Virgil ALE. . [ [eale, Sax. bt 1. A liquor made by infufing malt .in M alekright by Hanville of Englan wer wel in the alehoufe-colour that time de o Camden ArLe'mBICK 7. /i A veflel ufed in diftil ling, confifting of a veflel placed ove a fire, in which is contained the {ub word now only ufed in converfation ol painte Ben Fonfon fugar Pope A'LEHOUSE-KEEPER. #. /. [from aleboufe and fecper.] He that keeps al publickly to fell countr And their authorities at walces and ales fpice an thee each gillhouf And anfw'ring ginfhops fourer fighs return Arbuthnot And all the neighbourhood, from old record Of antick proverbs drawn from Whitfon lords ftanc Their aleberries, cawdles, poflets, each one to b diftilled an concav clofely fitted on, into which the fume arife by the heat ; this cover has a bea Syllibubs made at the milking pale But what are compofed of a pot of good ale Beaumont or {pout int whic and by whic th vapour rife they pafs into a ferpen The fummer-made malt brews ill, and is dif tine pipe, which is kept cool by makin many convolutions in a tub of water Mortimer's Hufbandry here the vapours are condenfed, an what entered the pipe in fumes, come likked by moft of our ale-brezvers are now regarded only as finecures fo decayed citizens A'LecosT. . /. [perhaps from ale, an coftus, Lat. With you, .mine alderlicveft fovereign A'LECONNER. 7./ [from ale and con. An officer in the city of London, whof bufinefs is to infpe& the meafures o publick houfes. Four of them are chofen or rechofen annually by the common-hall of the city; and, whateve might be their ufe formerly, their place ground alder, old Shakefpeare's Henry VIII The fertility of the foil in grain, and ifs bein not proper for vines, put the Egyptians upon drink unde ALDERLYEVEST for ale and cakes here, you rude rafcals round-leaved alder. 2. The long-leave alder. 3. The {carlet alder. Thefe tree delight in a very moift {oil. The woo is ufed by turners, and will endure lon And nodding cyprefs form'd a fragrant fhade Pope's Odyffey )6 Do you loo A'LE BREWER. 7./ [from aleand brewer.] Obne that profefles to brew ale Without the grot, a various fylvan fcene Appear'd around, and groves of living green ; Poplars and alders ever quivering play'd You muft be fecing chriftenings ‘With country precedents, and old wives tales A tree hav fhall each alehoufe mourn places Pope's Odyffey 7. / The quor z. And hear old Chaucer warble through the glades A'LpER hot water, and then fermenting the Ii ing ale, of which they were the inventots By Rofamonda fleeting o'er the green In dreams be hail'd by heroes' mighty fhades Deep in a rich a/cowe the prince was laid And flept bgaeath the pompous colonnade AL The name of an herb ALr'cTrRYOMANCY MANCY 7 Di& O [527\En7ng ALECTOROan ‘uéfltg. Divination by a cock Dis A'LEGar. n [ [from al and eager four. Sour ale; a kind of acid mad by ale, as vinegar by wine, which ha loft its {pirit A'LEGER adj Thoug Coftee, the root and leaf betle, and lea of which the Turks are great takers, d denfe the fpirits, and make them ftron ger Bacor's Natura gredient in ale An herb or groundivy is, in my opinion o the moft excellent and moft general ufe and virtue, of any plants we have among us Temple A'LEHOUSE. 7. f A houfe wher a tipling-houfe a tavern, wher Tho be rarefie fcattered into minut parts gether in the alembick or in th fently retur into invifibl air whic but onl meeting to receiver, do pre into fuch water as they conftitute before Boyle ALE'NGTH adv [fro fo af an a Part ac 2. In the common fenfe, brifk; pert pe length.] At full length ; along; ftretche along the ground ALERT. adj. [alerte, Fr. perhaps fro alacris bu probably fro cording to art or rule. 1. In the military fenfe, on guard; watchful 5 vigilant; ready at a call tulant ; fmart; implyin of cenfure and contempt I fa an alert youn hat upo a frien {om fellow of his degre that cocked hi an accofte him Well, Jack, the old prig is dead at laft Addifon, Speéiator Are'rRTNESs # quality of bein pertnefs tobacco all conand a/eHiffory A'LeHooF. n [ [from ale and hoopd head. Groundivy, fo called by ou Saxon anceftors, as being their chief in water ma vapours, yet it is not changed int [allegre, Fr. alacris, Lat. Gay ; chearful; {prightly: a word no now ufed Aleboof out in drops [from aler:. alert 'Th f{prightlinefs That alertnefs and unconcern for matters o common life, a campaign or two would infallibl have given him Addifony- Spectator A'LETASTER. #. /. [from ale and taffer. An oflicer appointed in every court leet and {worn to look to the aflize and th goodnefs of bread and ale, or beer within the precinéts of that lordfhip Cowell [from ale and houfe. A'Levar a / [fro al an war. Th ale is publickly fold tu i whic th al i fermented It is diftinguithed fro A'LeEw #./ Clamou outcry No i they {ell wine ufe Spenfer moft beauteous inn Why fhould hard-favour'd grief be lodg'd in thee ‘When triumph is become an alehoufe gueft Shakefpeare One would think it fhould be no eafy matte to bring any man of fenfe in love with an a/ehoufe; indeed of fo much fenfe as feeing an fmelling amounts to; there being fuch ftron encounters of both, as would quickly fend hi packing, did not the love of good fellowihip re concile to thefe nuifances Saath A'LEwASHED. adj. [from ale and wwafh. Steeped or foaked in ale: not now i ufe What a beard of the general's cut, and a horrid fuit of the camp, will do among foamin battle an wits alewafbe is wonderfu t b Shakefpearc thought on A'LEwire. z.f. [from ol and wwif?. A woman that keeps an alehoufe Perhap |