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 A L I (it 9 ) ALL Alienation, in mortmain, is making over lands, te- The.calix confills of three pieces or leaves; the flower nements, fee. to a body politic, or to a religious has three petals ; and the feeds are numerous. There houfe, for which the king’s licence mud firft be ob- are feven fpecies of this plant, viz. the plantago, or tained, otherwife the lands, fee. alienated will be great water-plantain,, which grows in all the marlhy forfeited. See Mortmain. parts of this country; the rahunculoides, or leffer waALIFANUS, in botany, a fynonime of the rhexia. See ter-plantain ; the natans, or creeping water-plantain; Rhexia. the damafonium, or liar-headed water-plantain; all ALIFORMIS, in anatomy, the name of a pair of muf- of which are natives of Britain: the Hava, cordifolia, and fubulata, are natives of America. cles. See Anatomy, Part II. Aliformis procejfus, the name given by fome to the ALITES, in Roman antiquity, a defignation given to prominencies of the os cuneiforme. See Anatomy, fuch birds as afforded matter of auguries by their flight; Part I. in which fenfe they are contradillinguilhed from thofe ALIM A, a kind of fand found in gold mines, of which called ofeines. See Os c i n e s. they make lead. ALIZE, in geography. See Alise. ALIMENT, whatever promotes the growth or nourilh- ALKA, in ornithology. See Alca. ment of animal or vegetable bodies. See Food. ALKAHEST, oeAlcahest, in chemiftry, anuniverObligation of Aliment, in Scots law, the natural obli- fal menltruum capable of refolving all bodies into their gation on parents to provide their children with the full principles. Van Helmont pretended he was poffeffed of fuch a menllruum; but, however credulous ( neceffaries of life, fee. See Law, titles, Marriage, and Obligations and contrails in general. people might be impofed on in his days, the notion is ALIMENTARY, an epithet for every thing that be- now become as ridiculous as the philofophers Hone, the longs to aliment or food. perpetuum mobile, fee. It is likewife ufed by fome Aliment.ary debt, in Scots law, an obligation come authors for all fixed falls volatilized. under by one perfon to pay a certain fum annually for ALKAHESTIC, an epithet applied to all powerful menthe maintenance of another, either grajuitoufly, in ftruums. confideration of a fum of money funk, or by way of ALKALI, in chemillry, a name for all fubllahces which ■ wages. See Law,- title, Arrejhnent and poinding. ferment with acids. See Chemistry, Of Alkalis, Alimentary children, in Roman antiquity, an apeiia- or alkaline fuhjlances. Alkali originally fignified-Only tion given to thofe educated in houfes not unlike our the fait of the kali. hofpitals. ALKALINE, an epithet for every body which poffefles AnMENTAR.Y-Vtfw, among, the Romans, that whereby any of the qualities of an alkali. children were obliged to maintain their aged parents. ALKALIZ ATION, in chemiftry, the impregnating any ALIMENTATION, a term ufed by feme writers, par- liquor with alkaline bodies. ticularly Lord Bacon, for what is commonly called ALKALY. See Alkali. nutrition. See Nutrition. ALKANET, in botany, the Englifli name of the anALIMONY, inlaw. See ^Aliment. chufa. See Anchusa. ALIMOS, in botany, an obfolete name of the glycir- ALKEKENGI, in botany, a fynonime of feveral fperhiza. See Glycirrhiza. cies of the atropa and phyfalis ; it is alfo the. trivial ALIOS-BATON, in ichthyology, an obfolete name of name of a fpecies of the phyfalis. See Physalis, a fpecies of rana or frog. See Rana. and Atropa. ALIPILARIUS, or Alipilus, in Roman antiquity, ALKERMES, in pharmacy, a compound cordial media fervant belonging to the baths, whole bufinefs it was, cine made in the form of a confedion. The principal by means of waxe» plafters, and an inftrument called ingredient is the"kermes. See Kermes. volfella, to take .off the hairs from the arm-pits, and ALK1N, a city of Arabia Felix, feven days journey, S. even arms, legs, fee. this being deemed a point, of from Mecca. cleanlinefs. ALKOOL. See Alcohol. ALIPTA, in Grecian antiquity. See Iatrauptra. ALKY of lead, a fweet fubftance obtained by the cheAL1PTERIUM, in the ancient gymnafia, the lame with mifts from lead. . ' ekeothefium. See El^othesium. ALL-HALLOWS, the fame with All-faints. Seethe ALIPOW mantis ceti, a kind of white turbith, found next article in Languedoc, ufed as a purgative. See Turbith. ALL-SAINTS, a feftival obferved by moft denominaALIQUANT parts, thofe parts which one number can- tions of Chriftians, in commemoration of all the faints in general. It is kept on the firft of November. not meafu re. See Arithmeric. ALIQUOT parts, thofe parts which one number can All-saints bay, or baiha de todos fanitos, a fpacious meafure. See Arithmetic. ha'rbour near St Salvador in Brazil, in S. America, ALISE, or Alize, afmall town of France, in the di- on the Atlantic Ocean, W. long. 40°, S. lat. 120. ftrid of Auxois. ALL-SOULS, a feftival kept in commemoration of all Alise, or Elise, is a fmall illand in the Irilh fea, not the faithful deceafed, on the fecond of November. far from the mull of Galloway. ALLA, or Allah, the name by which all the profefALISMA, in botany, a genus of the hexandria polygy- fors of Mahomctanifm call the Supreme Being. nia clafs. The characters of the alifma arc thefe. The term alia is Arabic, derived from the verb alah, to