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Alternateness :: Alternateness (n.) The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns..

Alternate :: Alternate (v. i.) To vary by turns; as, the land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains..

Battlement :: Battlement (n.) pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches..

Reciprocal :: Reciprocal (a.) Recurring in vicissitude; alternate.

Roll :: Roll (v. i.) To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression..

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..

Subalternate :: Subalternate (a.) Subordinate; subaltern; inferior.

Alternate :: Alternate (v. t.) To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly..

Paly :: Paly (a.) Divided into four or more equal parts by perpendicular lines, and of two different tinctures disposed alternately..

Melib/an :: Melib/an (a.) Alternately responsive, as verses..

Roseola :: Roseola (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..

Alternative :: Alternative (a.) Alternate; reciprocal.

Siniate :: Siniate (a.) Having the margin alternately curved inward and outward; having rounded lobes separated by rounded sinuses; sinuous; wavy.

Flat :: Flat (n.) A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand..

Subalternating :: Subalternate (n.) A particular proposition, as opposed to a universal one. See Subaltern, 2..

Heterogamy :: Heterogamy (n.) That form of alternate generation in which two kinds of sexual generation, or a sexual and a parthenogenetic generation, alternate; -- in distinction from metagenesis, where sexual and asexual generations alternate..

Reciprocalness :: Reciprocalness (n.) The quality or condition of being reciprocal; mutual return; alternateness.

Vibrate :: Vibrate (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..

Swarm :: Swarm (v. i.) To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin..

Parthenogenesis :: Parthenogenesis (n.) The production of new individuals from virgin females by means of ova which have the power of developing without the intervention of the male element; the production, without fertilization, of cells capable of germination. It is one of the phenomena of alternate generation. Cf. Heterogamy, and Metagenesis..

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