Word Meanings - ALDERN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Made of alder.

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• ALDER
  A tree, usually growing in moist land, and belonging to the genus Alnus. The wood is used by turners, etc.; the bark by dyers and tanners. In the U. S. the species of alder are usually shrubs or small trees. Black alder. A European shrub ; Alder
• ALDERMANSHIP
  The condition, position, or office of an alderman. Fabyan.
• ALDER FLY
  1. Any of numerous neuropterous insects of the genus Sialis or allied genera. They have aquatic larvæ, which are used for bait. 2. An artificial fly with brown mottled wings, body of peacock harl, and black legs.
• ALDERN
  Made of alder.
• ALDERMANIC
  Relating to, becoming to, or like, an alderman; characteristic of an alderman.
• ALDERMANLIKE
  Like or suited to an alderman.
• ALDERNEY
  One of a breed of cattle raised in Alderney, one of the Channel Islands. Alderneys are of a dun or tawny color and are often called Jersey cattle. See Jersey, 3.
• ALDERMANRY
  1. The district or ward of an alderman. 2. The office or rank of an alderman. B. Jonson.
• ALDER-LIEFEST
  Most beloved. Shak.
• ALDERMANLY
  Pertaining to, or like, an alderman.
• ALDER; ALLER
  Of all; -- used in composition; as, alderbest, best of all, alderwisest, wisest of all. Chaucer.
• ALDERMANITY
  1. Aldermen collectively; the body of aldermen. 2. The state of being an alderman.
• ALDERMAN
  1. A senior or superior; a person of rank or dignity. Note: The title was applied, among the Anglo-Saxons, to princes, dukes, earls, senators, and presiding magistrates; also to archbishops and bishops, implying superior wisdom or authority. Thus
• ALDERMANCY
  The office of an alderman.
• STALDER
  A wooden frame to set casks on.
• CHALDRICH; CHALDER
  A kind of bird; the oyster catcher.
• EALDERMAN; EALDORMAN
  An alderman.
• BALDERDASH
  clatter, and E. dash; hence, perhaps, unmeaning noise, then hodgepodge, mixture; or W. baldorduss a prattling, baldordd, 1. A worthless mixture, especially of liquors. Indeed beer, by a mixture of wine, hath lost both name and nature, and is called
• BALDER
  The most beautiful and beloved of the gods; the god of peace; the son of Odin and Freya.
• SCALDER
  A Scandinavian poet; a scald.