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 A I. L ALL ( 120 ) to 'adore. It is tire fame with the Hebrew cloak, which' condemned by the learned author of the Elements of Criticifm: fignifies the adorable Being. ALLANTOIS, or Allantoides, a gut-ftiaped veficle Methought I hea/d a voice cry, Sleep no more ! inverting the foetus of cows, goats, flieep, <&c. filled Macbeth doth murther Sleep ; the innocent fleep ; with a liquor conveyed to it from the urachus. Sleep that knits up the ravell’d fleeve of Care, ALLAY, See Alloy. The birth of each day’s life, fore Labour’s bath, ALLEGATA, in Roman antiquity, a kind of fubfcripBalm of hurt minds, great Nature’s fecond courfe. tion ufed by the emperors, importing tire writings to be Chief nourilher in life’s feaft. A<3: ii. Sc. 3. verified. ALLEGATION, in matters of literature, is the quo- ALLEGRO, in mufic, an Italian word, denoting that ting an author in regard to the fubjedt in hand. the part is to be played in a fprightly, brilk, lively, ALLEGIANCE, in law, denotes the obedience which and g..y manner. every fubjedt owes to his lawful fovereign. Piu Allegro, fignifies, that the part it is joined to Oath of Allegiance, in the Britilh policy, that taken Ihould be fung or played quicker; as in acknowledgment of the king as a temporal prince; Paco piu Allegro, intimates, that the part to which it as the oath of fupremacy acknowledges him for the refers, ought to be played or fung only a little more fupreme head of the church. brifldy than allegro alone requires. ALLEGORICAL, a term applied to whatever belongs, ALLEGRET See Alegrette. to, or partakes of, tlje nature of an allegory. See ALLELENGYON, in antiquity, a tax paid^by the rich Axlegory. for the poor, when abfent in the army. ALLEGORIST, one who deals in allegories: fuch ALLELOPHAGI, a term ufed by fome authors for 3 were many of the Chriftian fathers. kind of flies which are laid to feed upon each other. ALLEGORY, in compofition, confirts in chufing a ie- ALLELUJAH, in botany, an obfolete name for the condary fubjedt, having all its properties and circum- oxys, SeeOxvs. ftances refembling thofe of the principal fubjedt, and Allelujah, among ecclefiaftical writers. See Haldefcribing the former in fuch a manner as to reprefent lelujah. the latter. The principal fubjedt is thus kept out of ALLEMAND, a fort of grave folemn mufic, widi good view, and we are left to difcover it by refiedtion. In meafure, and a flow movement. It is aifo a brilk other words, an allegory is, in every refpedt, fimilarto kind of dance, very common in Germany and Switan hicroglyphical painting, excepting only that words zerland. are ufed inftead of colours. Their effedts are precife- ALLEMANNIC, in a general fenfe, denotes any thing ly the fame : An Hieroglyphic taifes two images in the belonging to the ancient Germans. Thus, we meet mind; one feen, that reprefents one that is not feen : with Allemannic hiftory, Allemannic language, AiAn allegory does the fame; the reprefentative fubjedt lemannic law, &c. is defcribed; and the refemblance leads us to apply ALLENDORF, a little city in the Landgravate of Hefle-Caflel in Germany, fituated upon the river Wethe defcription to the fubjedt reprefented. . There cannot be a finer or-more corredt allegory fer; E long. io°, N. lat. 510 30' than the following, in which a vineyard is made to re ALLER, a river which runs through the Dutchy of1 Lunenburg, and falls into the Wefer, a little below ptefent God’s own people the Jews “ Thou haft brought a vine out of Egypt; thou Verden. “ haft cart' out the heathen, and planted it. Thou Aller, or Alder, a term ufed in our old writers to “ didft caufe it to take deep root, and it filled the denote the fuperlative degree. Thus, aller-good fig“ land. The hills were covered with its ftiadow, and nifies the greatefl good “ the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. ALLERION, or Alerion, in heraldry, a fort of eagle “ Why hart thou then broken down her hedges, fo without beak or feet, having nothing perfedt but the “ that all that pafs do pluck her ? The boar out of wings. They differ from martlets by having .their V the wood doth wafte it, and the wild heart doth de- wings expanded, whereas thofe of the martlet are “ vour it. Return, we befeech thee, O God of horts: clofe; and denote imperialifts vanquifhed and difarm-“ Jook down from heaven, and behold, and vifit this ed ; for which reafon they are more common in French “ vine and the vineyard thy right hand hath planted, than in German coats of arms. “ and the branch thou madeft ftrong for thyfelf.” ALEU, or Allode. See Allodial, and AlloPfal. Ixxx. dium. Nothing gives greater pleafure than an allegory, ALLEVIARE, in old records, fignifies to levy or raife •when the reprefentative fubjed bears a ftrong analogy,, c an accuftomed fine or impofition. in all its circumftances, to that which is reprefented. /ALLEVIATION, is the adt of making a thing lighter, But moll writers are unlucky in their choice, the ana- or more eafy to be borne. logy being generally fo faint and obfcure, as rather to ALLEVEURE, a fmall brafs Swedifli coin, worth apuzzle than to pleafe. Allegories, as well as meta- bout 2-JA Englilh money. phors and fimilies, are unnatural in exprefling any fe- ALLEY, in gardening, a flraight parallel walk, boundvere palfion which totally occupies the mind. For ed on both fides with trees, ihrubs, <bc. and ufually this reafon, the following fpeech of Macbeth is julily covered with gravel or turf. Covered