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v. i.
To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
n.
Successive course; opportunity enjoyed by alternation with another or with others, or in due order; due chance; alternate or incidental occasion; appropriate time.
v. i.
To alter or change in succession; to alternate; as, one mathematical quantity varies inversely as another.
n.
A limited reciprocating motion of a particle of an elastic body or medium in alternately opposite directions from its position of equilibrium, when that equilibrium has been disturbed, as when a stretched cord or other body produces musical notes, or particles of air transmit sounds to the ear. The path of the particle may be in a straight line, in a circular arc, or in any curve whatever.
n.
A variety of onyx consisting of sard and white chalcedony in alternate layers.
v. t.
To change to something else; to transmute; to exchange; to alternate.
v.
The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching.
n.
The skin of the squirrel, much used in the fourteenth century as fur for garments, and frequently mentioned by writers of that period in describing the costly dresses of kings, nobles, and prelates. It is represented in heraldry by a series of small shields placed close together, and alternately white and blue.
n.
A rose-colored efflorescence upon the skin, occurring in circumscribed patches of little or no elevation and often alternately fading and reviving; also, an acute specific disease which is characterized by an eruption of this character; -- called also rose rash.
n.
That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
n.
The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns.
adv.
In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.
a.
Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second; as, the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc. ; read every alternate line.
v. t.
To make into a sandwich; also, figuratively, to insert between portions of something dissimilar; to form of alternate parts or things, or alternating layers of a different nature; to interlard.
imp. & p. p.
of Alternate
a.
Having alternate ridges and depressions; wrinkled.
v. i.
To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; -- followed by with; as, the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other.
v. i.
To vary by turns; as, the land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains.
a.
Alternately disposed on exactly opposite sides of the stem so as to from two ranks; distichous.
v. i.
To have the constituent particles move to and fro, with alternate compression and dilation of parts, as the air, or any elastic body; to quiver.
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