Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Variant of alar.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Relating to wings or wing-like parts; being wing-like. Specifically applied, in entomology, to certain muscles passing in pairs from the walls of the pericardial chamber of some insects to the abdominal parietes. See
alæ cordis , under ala. - In anatomy and botany, wing-shaped.
Wiktionary
- adj. Pertaining to wings.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to wings; also, wing-shaped.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having or resembling wings
Etymologies
- From Latin alarius, from ala ‘wing’. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Mr. D'Antoni said he could not remember a bigger game in his Knicks tenure — and few would disagree, since Mr. D'Antoni has been at the helm for two miserable seasons where the focus was on alary cap space and not basketball.”
The Wall Street Journal: Knicks Make a Strong Statement in Defeat
“The memorandum contains the standard $160K salary scale - 160-170-185-210-230-250-265-280 - but states that "[s] alary levels in each associate class will range up to the maximum base compensation levels set forth" in the memo (emphases added).”
“Senior Policy Officer international hiv/aids alliance. alary £34,000 - £36,000 per annum plus attractive benefits package.”
“Expanding the deal to include Philips, while the Mets take on all the alary (about 19m total for 2010) should still not require a ton of talent back.”
“John Rutledge, Efqj to the United N«tieilands Sy a Refotve of Congrefs ihe f alary cf a Minifier at a foreign Court is not to exceed 9000 dollars 5 and that 0* ■”
“•alary -, and 3. defray the other expences and necessary repairs of the said gaol.”
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Internet Archive: Papers presented to the House of Commons, relating to East India Affairs
“And if it (hall happen that this legacy Ihall be found not to anfwcr the purpofe intended, I im - power the bifliop of Oflbry for the time being, with the confent of the dean and chapter of St. Canice, to fell the books, and apply their price together with. the faid (alary of the librarian towards raifing or sidoraiijig the imperfedl fteeple of their cathedral.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘alary’.
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.names
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
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Forma
the shapes of things
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Vega's much-loved and adored
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Form Words
Words that mean the form of something. Like pyriform means pear-shaped
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Vocabulary
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jookerie Also meaning wing-shaped Jul 17, 2008