Definition of alley

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Alley (n.) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length..

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Court :: Court (n.) An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley..
Thousand Legs :: Thousand legs () A millepid, or galleyworm; -- called also thousand-legged worm..
Alleys :: Alleys (pl. ) of Alle.
Coursey :: Coursey (n.) A space in the galley; a part of the hatches.
Copts :: Copts (n. pl.) The principal sect of Christians in Egypt and the valley of the Nile.
Ally :: Ally (n.) See Alley, a marble or taw..
Convallaria :: Convallaria (n.) The lily of the valley.
Copper :: Copper (n.) the boilers in the galley for cooking; as, a ship's coppers..
Till :: Till (n.) A deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination, formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from the melting glaciers; -- sometimes applied to alluvium of an upper river terrace, when not laminated, and appearing as if formed in the same manner..
Dalesman :: Dalesman (n.) One living in a dale; -- a term applied particularly to the inhabitants of the valleys in the north of England, Norway, etc..
Glen :: Glen (n.) A secluded and narrow valley; a dale; a depression between hills.
Dromon :: Dromon () In the Middle Ages, a large, fast-sailing galley, or cutter; a large, swift war vessel..
Lane :: Lane (n.) A passageway between fences or hedges which is not traveled as a highroad; an alley between buildings; a narrow way among trees, rocks, and other natural obstructions; hence, in a general sense, a narrow passageway; as, a lane between lines of men, or through a field of ice..
Rostrated :: Rostrated (a.) Furnished or adorned with beaks; as, rostrated galleys..
Lovely :: Lovely (superl.) Very pleasing; -- applied loosely to almost anything which is not grand or merely pretty; as, a lovely view; a lovely valley; a lovely melody..
Blind :: Blind (a.) Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut..
Station :: Station (n.) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accomodation of a pump, tank, etc..
Clough :: Clough (n.) A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley.
Combe :: Combe (n.) That unwatered portion of a valley which forms its continuation beyond and above the most elevated spring that issues into it.
Fassaite :: Fassaite (n.) A variety of pyroxene, from the valley of Fassa, in the Tyrol..
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