Vocabulary : Aleberry to Alee

Aleberry : A beverage, formerly made by boiling ale with spice, sugar, and sops of bread.
Alecithal : Applied to those ova which segment uniformly, and which have little or no food yelk embedded in their protoplasm.
Aleconner : Orig., an officer appointed to look to the goodness of ale and beer; also, one of the officers chosen by the liverymen of London to inspect the measures used in public houses. But the office is a sinecure. [Also called aletaster.]
Alecost : The plant costmary, which was formerly much used for flavoring ale.
Alectorides : A group of birds including the common fowl and the pheasants.

Alectoromachy : Cockfighting.
Alectoromancy : See Alectryomancy.
Alectryom'achy : Cockfighting.
Alectryomancy : Divination by means of a cock and grains of corn placed on the letters of the alphabet, the letters being put together in the order in which the grains were eaten.
Alee : On or toward the lee, or the side away from the wind; the opposite of aweather. The helm of a ship is alee when pressed close to the lee side.

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