ale | (noun) a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the United States an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume | - |
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aleatory | (adjective) dependent on chance | - |
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alecost | (noun) tansy-scented Eurasian perennial herb with buttonlike yellow flowers; used as potherb or salad green and sometimes for potpourri or tea or flavoring; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: balsam herb, bible leaf, Chrysanthemum balsamita, costmary, mint geranium, Tanacetum balsamita |
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alee | (adverb) on or toward the lee | - |
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alehoof | (noun) trailing European aromatic plant of the mint family having rounded leaves and small purplish flowers often grown in hanging baskets; naturalized in North America; sometimes placed in genus Nepeta | Synonyms: field balm, gill-over-the-ground, Glechoma hederaceae, ground ivy, Nepeta hederaceae, runaway robin |
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alehouse | (noun) a tavern where ale is sold | - |
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alembic | (noun) an obsolete kind of container used for distillation; two retorts connected by a tube | - |
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alendronate | (noun) a tablet (trade name Fosamax) prescribed to prevent or treat osteoporosis in women after menopause | Synonyms: Fosamax |
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aleph | (noun) the 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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alert | (adjective) engaged in or accustomed to close observation | Synonyms: watchful |
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(adjective) mentally perceptive and responsive | Synonyms: alive, awake |
(adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy |
(noun) a warning serves to make you more alert to danger | Synonyms: alerting |
(noun) an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger | Synonyms: alarm, alarum, warning signal |
(noun) condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action | Synonyms: qui vive |
(verb) warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness | Synonyms: alarm |
alerting | (noun) a warning serves to make you more alert to danger | Synonyms: alert |
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(noun) a state of readiness to respond | Synonyms: alertness |
alertly | (adverb) in mentally perceptive and responsive way | - |
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alertness | (noun) lively attentiveness | Synonyms: on the qui vive, sharp-sightedness |
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(noun) the process of paying close and continuous attention | Synonyms: vigilance, wakefulness, watchfulness |
(noun) a state of readiness to respond | Synonyms: alerting |
aleurone | (noun) granular protein in outermost layer of endosperm of many seeds or cereal grains | - |
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aleuronic | (adjective) of or related to aleurone | - |
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alewife | (noun) shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus | Synonyms: Alosa pseudoharengus, Pomolobus pseudoharengus |
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(noun) flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams | - |
alexandrite | (noun) a green variety of chrysoberyl used as a gemstone | - |
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alexia | (noun) inability to perceive written words | Synonyms: visual aphasia, word blindness |
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alexic | (adjective) of or relating to or symptomatic of alexia | Synonyms: word-blind |
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(noun) a person with alexia | - |