Part 311

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Of all living (by way of emphasis).</def>

<blockquote>Northumberland was the proudest man <b>alive</b>. <i>Clarendon.</i></blockquote>

<note>Used colloquially as an intensive; as, <i>man alive!</i></note>

<note>&hand; <i>Alive</i> always follows the noun which it qualifies.</note>

<h1>Alizari</h1> <Xpage=39>

<hw>A`li*za"ri</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Perh. fr. Ar. <ets>'a<?/\'berah</ets> juice extracted from a plant, fr. <ets>'a<?/ara</ets> to press.]</ety> <fld>(Com.)</fld> <def>The madder of the Levant.</def>

<i>Brande & C.</i>

<h1>Alizarin</h1> <Xpage=39>

<hw>A*liz"a*rin</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>alizarine</ets>, fr. <ets>alizari</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A coloring principle, <chform>C14H6O2(OH)2</chform>, found in madder, and now produced artificially from anthracene. It produces the Turkish reds.</def>

<h1>Alkahest</h1> <Xpage=39>

<hw>Al"ka*hest</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>alchahest</ets>, F. <ets>alcahest</ets>, a word that has an Arabic appearance, but was probably arbitrarily formed by Paracelsus.]</ety> <def>The fabled "universal solvent" of the alchemists; a menstruum capable of dissolving all bodies.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Al`ka*hes"tic</wf> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Alkalamide</h1> <Xpage=39>

<hw>Al`kal*am"ide</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Alkali</ets> + <ets>amide</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>One of a series of compounds that may be regarded as ammonia in which a part of the hydrogen has been replaced by basic, and another part by acid, atoms or radicals.</def>

<h1>Alkalescence, Alkalescency</h1> <Xpage=39>

<hw><hw>Al`ka*les`cence</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <hw>Al`ka*les"cen*cy</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <def>A tendency to become alkaline; or the state of a substance in which alkaline properties begin to be developed, or to predominant.</def>

<i>Ure.</i>

<h1>Alkalescent</h1> <Xpage=39>

<hw>Al`ka*les"cent</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>alcalescent</ets>.]</ety> <def>Tending to the properties of an alkali; slightly alkaline.</def>

<h1>Alkali</h1> <Xpage=39>

<hw>Al"ka*li</hw> <tt>(?; 277)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Alkalis</plw> or <plw>Alkalies</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>. <ety>[F. <ets>alcali</ets>, ultimately fr. Ar. <ets>alqal\'c6</ets> ashes of the plant saltwort, fr. <ets>qalay</ets> to roast in a pan, fry.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Soda ash; caustic soda, caustic potash, etc.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, potash, ammoma, and lithia, whose distinguishing peculiarities are solubility in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue.</def>

<cs><col>Fixed alkalies</col>, <cd>potash and soda.</cd> -- <col>Vegetable alkalies</col>. <cd>Same as <er>Alkaloids</er>.</cd> -- <col>Volatile alkali</col>, <cd>ammonia, so called in distinction from the fixed alkalies.</cd></cs>

<h1>Alkalifiable</h1> <Xpage=39>

<hw>Al"ka*li*fi`a*ble</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>alcalifiable</ets>.]</ety> <def>Capable of being alkalified, or converted into an alkali.</def>

<h1>Alkalify</h1> <Xpage=39>

<hw>Al"ka*li*fy</hw> <tt>(?; 277)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Alkalified</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Alkalifying</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[<ets>Alkali</ets> + <ets>-fly</ets>: cf. F. <ets>alcalifier</ets>.]</ety> <def>To convert into an alkali; to give alkaline properties to.</def>

<h1>Alkalify</h1> <Xpage=39>

<hw>Al"ka*li*fy</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To become changed into an alkali.</def>