Alternatively to Amalgamate

Alternatively
(Al*ter"na*tive*ly), adv. In the manner of alternatives, or that admits the choice of one out of two things.

Alternativeness
(Al*ter"na*tive*ness), n. The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two.

Alternity
(Al*ter"ni*ty) n. [LL. alternitas.] Succession by turns; alternation. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Althæa
(||Al*thæ"a, ||Al*the"a) n. [althaea, Gr. .] (Bot.) (a) A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks. (b) An ornamental shrub (Hibiscus Syriacus) of the Mallow family.

Altheine
(Al*the"ine) n. (Chem.) Asparagine.

Altho
(Al*tho") conj. Although. [Reformed spelling]

Althorn
(Alt"horn`) n. [Alt + horn.] (Mus.) An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn. Grove.

Although
(Al*though") conj. [All + though; OE. al thagh.] Grant all this; be it that; supposing that; notwithstanding; though.

Although all shall be offended, yet will not I.
Mark xiv. 29.

Syn.Although, Though. Although, which originally was perhaps more emphatic than though, is now interchangeable with it in the sense given above. Euphonic consideration determines the choice.

Altiloquence
(Al*til"o*quence) n. Lofty speech; pompous language. [R.] Bailey.

Altiloquent
(Al*til"o*quent) a. [L. altus (adv. alte) high + loquens, p. pr. of loqui to speak.] High- sounding; pompous in speech. [R.] Bailey.

Altimeter
(Al*tim"e*ter) n. [LL. altimeter; altus high + metrum, Gr. measure: cf. F. altimètre.] An instrument for taking altitudes, as a quadrant, sextant, etc. Knight.

Altimetry
(Al*tim"e*try) n. [Cf. F. altimétrie.] The art of measuring altitudes, or heights.

Altincar
(Al*tin"car) n. See Tincal.

Altiscope
(Al"ti*scope) n. [L. altus high + Gr. to view.] An arrangement of lenses and mirrors which enables a person to see an object in spite of intervening objects.

Altisonant
(Al*tis"o*nant) a. [L. altus high + sonans, p. pr. of sonare to sound.] High-sounding; lofty or pompous. Skelton.

Altisonous
(Al*tis"o*nous) a. [L. altisonus.] Altisonant.

Altissimo
(||Al*tis"si*mo) n. [It.; superl. of alto.] (Mus.) The part or notes situated above F in alt.

Altitude
(Al"ti*tude) n. [L. altitudo, fr. altus high. Cf. Altar, Haughty, Enhance.]

1. Space extended upward; height; the perpendicular elevation of an object above its foundation, above the ground, or above a given level, or of one object above another; as, the altitude of a mountain, or of a bird above the top of a tree.

2. (Astron.) The elevation of a point, or star, or other celestial object, above the horizon, measured by the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between such point and the horizon. It is either true or apparent;


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