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{ Al`ge*bra"ic (&?;), Al`ge*bra"ic*al (&?;), } a. Of or pertaining to algebra; containing an operation of algebra, or deduced from such operation; as, algebraic characters; algebraical writings.

Algebraic curve, a curve such that the equation which expresses the relation between the coördinates of its points involves only the ordinary operations of algebra; -- opposed to a transcendental curve.

Al`ge*bra"ic*al*ly, adv. By algebraic process.

Al"ge*bra`ist (&?;), n. One versed in algebra.

Al"ge*bra*ize (&?;), v. t. To perform by algebra; to reduce to algebraic form.

Al*ge"ri*an (&?;), a. Of or pertaining to Algeria. -- n. A native of Algeria.

Al`ge*rine" (&?;), a. Of or pertaining to Algiers or Algeria.

Al`ge*rine", n. A native or one of the people of Algiers or Algeria. Also, a pirate.

Al"gid (&?;), a. [L. algidus cold, fr. algere to be cold: cf. F. algide.] Cold; chilly. Bailey.

Algid cholera (Med.), Asiatic cholera.

Al*gid"i*ty (&?;), n. Chilliness; coldness; especially (Med.), coldness and collapse.

Al"gid*ness (&?;), n. Algidity. [Obs.]

Al*gif"ic (&?;), a. [L. algificus, fr. algus cold + facere to make.] Producing cold.

Al"goid (&?;), a. [L. alga + - oid.] Of the nature of, or resembling, an alga.

Al"gol (&?;), n. [Ar. al-ghl destruction, calamity, fr. ghla to take suddenly, destroy.] (Astron.) A fixed star, in Medusa's head, in the constellation Perseus, remarkable for its periodic variation in brightness.

Al`go*log"ic*al (&?;), a. Of or pertaining to algology; as, algological specimens.

Al*gol"o*gist (&?;), n. One learned about algæ; a student of algology.

Al*gol"o*gy (&?;), n. [L. alga seaweed + -logy.] (Bot.) The study or science of algæ or seaweeds.

{ Al*gon"quin (&?;), Al*gon"kin (&?;), } n. One of a widely spread family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence.

||Al"gor (&?;), n. [L.] (Med.) Cold; chilliness.

{ Al"go*rism (&?;), Al"go*rithm (&?;), } n. [OE. algorism, algrim, augrim, OF. algorisme, F. algorithme (cf. Sp. algoritmo, OSp. alguarismo, LL. algorismus), fr. the Ar. al- Khowrezm of Khowrezm, the modern Khiwa, surname of Abu Ja'far Mohammed ben Mus, author of a work on arithmetic early in the 9th century, which was translated into Latin, such books bearing the name algorismus. The spelling with th is due to a supposed connection with Gr. &?; number.] 1. The art of calculating by nine figures and zero.

2. The art of calculating with any species of notation; as, the algorithms of fractions, proportions, surds, etc.

Al"gous (&?;), a. [L. algosus, fr. alga seaweed.] Of or pertaining to the algæ, or seaweeds; abounding with, or like, seaweed.

||Al`gua*zil" (&?;) (&?;), n. [Sp. alguacil, fr. Ar. alwazr the vizier. Cf. Vizier.] An inferior officer of justice in Spain; a warrant officer; a constable. Prescott.

Al"gum (&?;), n. Same as Almug (and etymologically preferable). 2 Chron. ii. 8.

Al*ham"bra (&?;), n. [Ultimately fr. Ar. al the + hamr red; i. e., the red (sc. house).] The palace of the Moorish kings at Granada.

{ Al`ham*bra"ic (&?;), Al`ham*bresque" (?; 277), } a. Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture.

||Al*hen"na (&?;), n. See Henna.