Definition of alternate

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Alternate (n.) A substitute; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty..

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Vair :: Vair (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..
Subalternate :: Subalternate (a.) Subordinate; subaltern; inferior.
Reciprocate :: Reciprocate (v. t.) To give and return mutually; to make return for; to give in return; to interchange; to alternate; as, to reciprocate favors..
Shed :: Shed (n.) The passageway between the threads of the warp through which the shuttle is thrown, having a sloping top and bottom made by raising and lowering the alternate threads..
Reciprocal :: Reciprocal (a.) Recurring in vicissitude; alternate.
Interchange :: Interchange (v. i.) To make an interchange; to alternate.
Cam :: Cam (n.) A projecting part of a wheel or other moving piece so shaped as to give alternate or variable motion to another piece against which it acts.
Alternate :: Alternate (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..
Torose :: Torose (a.) Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences.
Second :: Second (a.) To follow in the next place; to succeed; to alternate.
Sporophoric :: Sporophore (n.) That alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless numbers. In ferns it is the leafy plant, in mosses the capsule. Cf. Oophore..
Amoebaeum :: Amoebaeum (n.) A poem in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil.
Anthemwise :: Anthemwise (adv.) Alternately.
Alternateness :: Alternateness (n.) The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns..
Reciprocalness :: Reciprocalness (n.) The quality or condition of being reciprocal; mutual return; alternateness.
Subalternating :: Subalternate (n.) A particular proposition, as opposed to a universal one. See Subaltern, 2..
Shin :: Shin (v. i.) To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like; -- used with up; as, to shin up a mast..
Recourseful :: Recourseful (a.) Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately.
Litany :: Litany (n.) A solemn form of supplication in the public worship of various churches, in which the clergy and congregation join, the former leading and the latter responding in alternate sentences. It is usually of a penitential character..
Rugate :: Rugate (a.) Having alternate ridges and depressions; wrinkled.
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