n.; pl. Aloes [ L. aloë, Gr. 'alo`h, aloe: cf. OF. aloe, F. aloès. ] 1. pl. The wood of the agalloch. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) [ capitalized ] A genus of succulent plants, some classed as trees, others as shrubs, but the greater number having the habit and appearance of evergreen herbaceous plants; from some of which are prepared articles for medicine and the arts. They are natives of warm countries. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. (Med.) The inspissated juice of several species of aloe, used as a purgative. [ Plural in form but syntactically singular. ] AS [ 1913 Webster ]

American aloe,
Century aloe, the agave. See Agave. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. One of many families or subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted.
Syn. -- family Aloeaceae, aloe family. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a purgative made from the leaves of aloe. Same as aloe{ 3 }.
Syn. -- bitter aloes [ WordNet 1.5 ]

See Agalloch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A medicine containing chiefly aloes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. aloétique. ] Consisting chiefly of aloes; of the nature of aloes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From the chemist Blöde. ] (Min.) A hydrous sulphate of magnesium and sodium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of grasses comprising buffalo grass.
Syn. -- genus Buchloe. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; fold, fr. &unr_; twofold, double. ] (Anat.) The soft, spongy, or cancellated substance between the plates of the skull. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Diploic. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'e`ndon within + floio`s bark. ] (Bot.) The inner layer of the bark of trees. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Felly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Dan. flag af iis, iisflage, Sw. flaga, flake, isflaga, isflake. See Flag a flat stone. ] A low, flat mass of floating ice. [ 1913 Webster ]

Floe rat (Zool.), a seal (Phoca fœtida). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A galoche. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Surrounded with a halo; invested with an ideal glory; glorified. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some haloed face bending over me. C. Bronté. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. The cattle of the Hebrides, or of the Highlands. [ Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. ligne aloes, fr. L. lignum wood + aloe aloe. ] 1. Aloes wood, or agallochum. See Agallochum. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A fragrant tree mentioned in the Bible. Num. xxiv. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So called from Lölling, in Austria. ] (Min.) A tin-white arsenide of iron, isomorphous with arsenopyrite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. löss. ] (Geol.) A quaternary deposit, usually consisting of a fine yellowish earth, on the banks of the Rhine and other large rivers. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. [ Named after the Swedish Zoologist, S. F. Löven, who discovered it. ] (Zool.) The peculiar larva of Polygordius. See Polygordius. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖[ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; to probe a wound. ] (Zool.) A genus of beetles without wings, but having short oval elytra; the oil beetles. These beetles are sometimes used instead of cantharides for raising blisters. See Oil beetle, under Oil. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. me`sos middle + &unr_; a glutinous substance. ] (Zool.) A thin gelatinous tissue separating the ectoderm and endoderm in certain coelenterates. -- Mes`o*glœ"al a. [1913 Webster]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. me`sos middle + floio`s bark. ] (Bot.) The middle bark of a tree; the green layer of bark, usually soon covered by the outer or corky layer, and obliterated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; bark. ] (Bot.) That portion of fibrovascular bundles which corresponds to the inner bark; the liber tissue; -- distinguished from xylem. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From the native name; cf. Malay rasamāla the name of the tree. ] The liquid storax of the East Indian Liquidambar orientalis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. slo, AS. slā; akin to D. slee, G. schlehe, OHG. slēha, Dan. slaaen, Sw. slån, perhaps originally, that which blunts the teeth, or sets them on edge (cf. Slow); cf. Lith. slywa a plum, Russ. sliva. ] (Bot.) A small, bitter, wild European plum, the fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa); also, the tree itself. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. ] Same as Synalepha. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. An inferior kind of vanilla, the pods of Vanilla Pompona. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) See Water soldier. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., from Gr. zw^, on an animal + &unr_; any glutinous substance. ] (Biol.) A colony or mass of bacteria imbedded in a viscous gelatinous substance. The zoogloea is characteristic of a transitory stage through which rapidly multiplying bacteria pass in the course of their evolution. Also used adjectively. [ 1913 Webster ]