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Show -_-- AL ‘A L My A'umonEeRr, or A'LMNER, 7. /0 [eleemofy#arius, Lat.] The officer of a prince or otherperion, employed in the diftri bution of charity 1 enquired for an almoner5 and the general fam has pointed out your reverence as the worthief Dryden man | AL'MONRY plac 7z / wher [fro th almonér. almone Th refides o where the alms are diftributed ALM0'sT, adv, [from all and moft; tha is, moft part of all. Skinner.] .Nearly well nigh; in the next degree to th whole or to univerfality ‘Who is there almeft, whofe mind or other love or anger at fome tim not f fear or grief, ha faftened to fome clog, that it could not turn itfel Locke to any other object There can be no fuch thing, or notion, as an a/moff infinite; there can be nothing next or fecon to an omnipotent God Bentley's Sermons Atlas becornes unequal to his freight And a/moft faints beneath the glowing weight Addifon aol y ALMS 2. / [i Saxon elmey fro eleemofyna, Lat.] What is given gratuitoully in relief of the poor. It ha no fingular My arm'd knees ‘Which bow'd but in my ftirrup, bend like hi That hath received an a/s Shakefpeare The poor beggar hath'a juft demand or an alw . from the rich man; who is guilty of fraud, injuftice, and oppreflion, if he does not afford relief according to his abilities Savift ALMS-BASKET #et. 7z / [from a/ms and ba/ The bafket in which provifions ar put to be given away There fweepings do as well As the beft order'd meal For who the relith of thefe guefts will fit Needs fet them but the alms-bafket of wit k Ben Fonfon ‘We'll frand up for our properties, was the beggat' fong that lived upon the alms-bafket L'Eflrange's Fables " A'LmspEED. 2 [ [from alms and decd. An a& of charity; a charitable gift This woman was full of good works Aéts, ix. 36 i deeds which fhe did and a/ms Hard-favour'd Richard, where art thou Thou art not heres murder is thy a/msdeed i, Petitioner for blood thou ne'er put'ftback. Shakefp A'LMS-GIVER. 7./. [from alusand giver. ; He that gives alms ; he that fupport . others by his charity t i Julanbheni He endowed many religious foundations, and ye was he a great a/ms-giver in fecret, which fhewe clean.sh data import.tsv out README that his works in publick were dedicated rather t s God's glory than his own Bacon AL MSHOUSE. 7 /. [from alms and houfe. A houfe devoted to the reception an fupport of the poor ; an hofpital for th poor Theway of providing for the clergy by tithes, th % device of almshoufes for the poor, and the forting ou ) {{1¥ ef the people into parifhes, are manifett Hooker it qu® _ And to relief of lazars, and weak ag : 'r[h‘ + Of indigent faint fouls, paft corporal toil 20 A hundred almshoufes right well fupplied. Shake[p . Many penitents, after the robbing of temple {#" and other rapine, build an hofpital, or a/mshoufe 41 eut of the ruins of the church, and the fpoils o . widows and orphans L Eftrange Behold yon almshoufe neat but void of ftate Where age and want fit {miling at the gate. Pope A LMsSMAN 7. [fro alms and man. / A man who lives upon alms; who i "%, i dupported by charity AL T'll glve my jewels for a fet of beads My gorgeous palace for a hermitag My gay apparel for an almsman's gown. ~ Shakefp A'LMUG-TREE. 7. /. A tree mentioned i fcripture Of its wood were made mufical ipftruments, and it was ufed all in rails, or in a ftaircafe 'The Rab bins generally render it coral, other ebony, brazil, or pine. In the Septuagint it is tranflated wronght wood an in the Vulgate, Ligna Thyina But coral could never anfwer the purpofes o the almugim ; the pine-tree is to common in Judea to be imported fro Ophir; and the Thyinum, or citrontree, much efteemed by the ancients fo its fragrance and beauty, came fro Mauritania By the wood almugim, o algumim, or fimply gummim, taking a for a kind of article, may be underftoo oily and gummy forts of wood, and particularly the trees which produce gu ammoniac o gu arabick perhaps, the {fame with th wood mentioned by Mofes And the navy alfo of Hira an is Shitti Calmet that brought gol from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty o almug-trees and precious trees A‘tnAacaRrR A"LNAGER n.f. [from alnage. 1 Kingz, X. 11 or A'LNEGER. A meafurer by th ell ; a fworn officer, whofe bufinefs for merly was to infpet the aflize of woolle cloth, and to fix the feals appointe upon it for that purpofe ; but there ar no thre officer belongin to th regulation of cloth-manufatures, th Jearcher, meafurer, and alueger Did3 A'LNaGE. n f [from awlnage, or aunage, Fr.] Ell-meafure, or rather th meafuring by the ell or yard Dis A'unicuT. n /. [from all and night. A fervice which they call alnight, is a great cak of wax, with the wick in the midft; whereby i cometh to pafs, that the wick fetcheth the nourifh‘ment farther off Bacon A'LOES. #./. [pbmy, asitis fuppofed. A term applied to three different things 1. A precions wood ufed, in the Eaft, fo perfumes of which the beft fort i of higher price thdn gold, and was th moft valuable prefent given by the kin of Siam, in 1686, to the king of France It is called Tambac, andis the heart, o innermoft part, of the aloe zree 3 the nex part to which is called Calembac whic 1s fometimes imported into Europe, and though of inferiour value to the Tambac is much efteemed : the part next th bark is termed, by the Portuguefe, Pa d'aquila, or eagle-wood; but {fome account the eagle-wood not the outer par of the Tambac, but another {pecies. Ou knowledge of this wood is yet very imSavary perfect Ales is a tree which grows in hot countries Spain an eve th i mountain o 3. Aloes is a medicinal juice, extracted, no from the odoriferous, but the commo aloes tree, by cutting the leaves, and expofing the juice that drops from them t the fun It is diftinguifhed into Socoto rine and Caballine, or horfe aloes : th firft is {o called from Socotora; the fe cond becaufe, being coarfer, it ough to be confined to the ufe of farriers is a warm and ftrong cathartick Avos'ricar. adj. [from alses. fiting chiefly of aloes I_t ma be excited by aloetical acrimonious redicines Avor'rick I Con fcammoniate o Wifeman's Surgery a. /. [from aloes. Any me dicine is {o called, which chiefly confift of ', aloes ALO'FT adv [loffter, to lift up Qu ncy Dan Loft air, Jeelandifly 5 {o that aloft is, int the air.] On high; above ; in the air a word ufed chiefly in poetry For I have read in ftories oft That love has wings and foars aloft Suckling Upright he ftood, and bore aloft his fhiel Confpicuous fro afar, and overlook'd the field Dryden AvrLo'rr, prep. Above The great luminar Aloft the vulgar conftellations thick That from his lordly eye keep diftance due Difpenfes light from far Milton's Paradife Loff A'vocY. m./f. [aroy®. nefs; abfurdity UnreafonableDi& ALO'NE. adj. [alleen, Dutch eenn, OF one, thatis, fingle. from a/an 1. Without another The quarrel toucheth none but us alne Betwixt ousfelves let us decide it then Shakefp If by a mortal hand my father's thron Could be defended, *twas by mine alore. Dryden God, by whofe alsne power and converfation w all live, and move, and have our being. Bentley 2. Without company; {olitary Eagles we fee fly a/ome, and they are but fhee which always herd together Sidney Alone, for other creature in this plac Living, or lifelefs, to be found was none. Milton. I never durft in darknefs be alore Dryden ALO'NE. adv 1. This word is feldom ufed but with th word /ez, if even then it be an adverb It implies fometimes an ironical prohibition, forbidding to help a man who i able to manage the affair himfelf Let us alone to guard Corioli If they fet down before 's; 'fore they remove Bring up your army Shakefpeare Let you alone, cunning artificer See how his gorget peers above his gown To tell the people in what danger he was Ben Fonfon 2. 'To forbear; to leave undone His client ftole it, but he had better have /Jes i alone; for he loft his caufe by his jeft .Addifin ALo'NG adv [an longue, Fr. 1. At length Some rowl a mighty {ftone; fome laid along And bound with burning wires, on fpokes o wheels are hung Dryden 2. Thronugh any fpace meafured lengthwife A firebrand carried along, leaveth a train of ligh behind it Bacor's Natural Hiffory Where Ufens glides along the lowly lands Or the black water of Pomptina ftands Dryden 3. Throughout prefixed in th whole : with a/ Solomon, all aleng in his Proverbs, gives th Tillotfor title of fool to a wicked man They were a/l along a crofs, untoward fort o South people 4. Joined with the particle with ; in company ; joined with I you |
