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 ALA (7 * ) ALA burns to a pale yellow. The colour of this fpecies is ALAPOULI, in botany, an obfolete name of a fpecies a clear pale yellow refembling amber, and variegated of the averrhoa. See Averrhoa. with undulated veins; fome of which are pale red, ALAQUECA, a done brought from the E. Indies in others whitiih, and others of a pale brown. It was fmall glofiy fragments, faid to dop haemorrhages By formerly brought from Egypt, but is now to be met external application. with in feveral parts of England. The alabafters are ALARAF, among Mahometans, denotes the partitionfrequently ufed by ftatuaries for fmall ftatues, yafes, wall which feparates heaven from hell. and columns. After being calcined and mixed with ALARBES, or Alarabes, a name given to thofe Awater, they may be caft in any mould like plafter of rabians who live in tents, and didinguilh themfelves by their drefs from the others who live in towns. Paris, Alabaster, in antiquity, a term not only ufed fora ALARES, in Roman antiquity, an epithet given to the box of precious ointment; but alfo for a liquid mea- cavalry, on account of their being placed in the two wings of the army. fure, containing ten ounces of wine, or nine of oil. ALABASTRA, in botany, a name ufed by the ancients ALARES mufeuli. See Pterygoideus. ALARM, in the military art, denotes either the apprefor the calix or cup of flowers. ALABASTRUM dendroide, a kind of laminated ala- henfion of being fuddenly attacked, or the notice therebafter, beautifully variegated with the figures of Ihrubs, of, fignified by firing a cannon, firelock, or the like. Falfe alarms are frequently made ufe of to harrafs trees, <bc. ALADINISTS, a feft among the Mahometans, an- the enemy, by keeping them condarttly under arms. Sometimes alfo this method is taken to try the vigifwering to free-thinkers among us. ALADULIA, in geography, the moft eafterly divifion lance of the/piquet-guard, and what might be expectof Lefler Afia, comprehending the ancient Cappado- ed from them in cafe of real danger. Alarm-W/, that rung upon any hidden emergency, as cia, and Armenia fylinor. ALAGON, a fmall town of Spain, in the kingdom of a fire, mutiny, or the like. Arragon, fituated near the conflux of the river Xalon Alarm-/>3/?, or Alarm-^Lci?, the ground for drawing up each regiment in cafe of an alarm. This is otherwith the Ebro. ALAIS, a confiderable town of France, in the province wife called the rendezvous. of'Languedoc, fituated on the river Garden, at the Alarm, in fencing, is the fame with what is otherwife foot of the Cevennes. called an appeh orchallenge. See Challenge. ALAISEE, in heraldry, the fame with humetty. See ALATAMAHA, a large river of N. America, which, rifing in the Apalachian mountains, runs fouth-ead Humetty. ALALCOMENIUS, in Grecian antiquity, the Boeo- through the province of Georgia, and falls into the tian name of the month called, by the Athenians, Ma- Atlantic ocean, below the town of Irederica. ALATED annuals, fuch as are furniflied with wings. maflerion. See Mjemacterion. ALAMIRE, or A-la-mi-re, among muficians, a note Abated leaves, in botany, fuch as are compofed of feveral pinnated ones. See Pinnated. of the modern fcale of mufic. See Scale. ALAMODALITY, in a general fenfe, is the accom- ALATERNOIDES, in botany, a fynonime of a fpecies modating a perfon’s behaviour, drefs, and actions to of the myrica. See Myrica. the prevailing tafle of the country or times in which ALATERNUS, in botany, the trivial name of a fpecies of the rhamnus. See Rhamnus. he lives. ALAMODE, in commerce, a thin glofly black filk, AJ-ATRI, or Alatro, a town of Italy in the Campagna chiefly ufed for womens hoods, and mens mourning di R oma, fituated near the frontiers of Naples. ALAVA, or Alabro, in geography, a territory of fcarfs. ALAN, a fmall river of England in the county of Corn- Spain, being the fouth-ead divifion of the province of Bifcay. wall, which falls into the Briftol channel. Alan, is alfo a fmall town of France, with a very fine ALAUDA, or Lark, in ornithology, a genus of birds of the order of palferes ; the characters of which are caftle, fituated in the Caftern divifion of Gafcony. ALANA^eWtf, a name by which fome writers call the thefe : The beak is cylindrical, fubulated, flrait; and yellowifti tripoli. See Tripoli. the two mandibles or chaps are of equal fize. The ALAND, or Alandt, an ifland of the Baltic fea, tongue is bifid, and the hinder claw is draigbt, and fituated betv/een 18. and 20. degrees of long, and be- longer than the toe. There are nine fpecies of the alauda. 1. Alauda-arvenfis, or common jfey-lark, tween 59. and 61. degrees of lat. ALANGUER, or Alenguer, a town of Portugal, which rifes in the air almod perpendicularly, and bein the province of Edremadura, and about feven leagues gins to fing early in the fpring, and generally leaves off about midfummer. See Plate III. fig. 2. 2. A-. from Lilbon. ALANORARIUS, in our old cufioms, was a keeper of lauda-pratenfis, or tit-lark, has the two outward feafpaniels, fetting-dogs, <bc. for the ufe of fportfmen. thers of the wing edged with white, and frequents The word is derived from alati, a gothic term for a the meadows. 3. The arborea, or wood-lark, is a native of Europe, and is didinguilhed by an annular grey-hound. AL ANTE JO, in geography. See the article Alen- white fillet about the head. 4. The campedris, has tejo. one half of its chief feathers of the wings brown, except