2. To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To come or chance (upon). [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. brought into agreement or cooperation on the side of a faction, party, or cause. Opposite of nonaligned. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. brought into a straight or uniformly curved line. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Engin.) The ground-plan of a railway or other road, in distinction from the grades or profile. [ 1913 Webster ]

Instincts alligated to their nature. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arith.) A rule relating to the solution of questions concerning the compounding or mixing of different ingredients, or ingredients of different qualities or values. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The rule is named from the method of connecting together the terms by certain ligature-like signs. Alligation is of two kinds, medial and alternate; medial teaching the method of finding the price or quality of a mixture of several simple ingredients whose prices and qualities are known; alternate, teaching the amount of each of several simple ingredients whose prices or qualities are known, which will be required to make a mixture of given price or quality. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mech.) Any machine with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator; as, (a) (Metal Working) a form of squeezer for the puddle ball; (b) (Mining) a rock breaker; (c) (Printing) a kind of job press, called also alligator press. [ 1913 Webster ]

Alligator apple (Bot.), the fruit of the Anona palustris, a West Indian tree. It is said to be narcotic in its properties. Loudon. --
Alligator fish (Zool.), a marine fish of northwestern America (Podothecus acipenserinus). --
Alligator gar (Zool.), one of the gar pikes (Lepidosteus spatula) found in the southern rivers of the United States. The name is also applied to other species of gar pikes. --
Alligator pear (Bot.), a corruption of Avocado pear. See Avocado. --
Alligator snapper,
Alligator tortoise,
Alligator turtle (Zool.), a very large and voracious turtle (Macrochelys lacertina) inhabiting the rivers of the southern United States. It sometimes reaches the weight of two hundred pounds. Unlike the common snapping turtle, to which the name is sometimes erroneously applied, it has a scaly head and many small scales beneath the tail. This name is sometimes given to other turtles, as to species of Trionyx. --
Alligator wood, the timber of a tree of the West Indies (Guarea Swartzii). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. the act or state of being engaged in war or a warlike conflict; warfare.
Syn. -- hostilities. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. an aggressively hostile or warlike attitude or nature; a readiness to fight or offend, with little or no provocation. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. Pertaining, or tending, to war; of or relating to belligerents; as, a belligerent tone; belligerent rights. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ This vapor ] blasts vegetables, blights corn and fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects. [ 1913 Webster ]

Seared in heart and lone and blighted. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of blighting, or the state of being blighted; a withering or mildewing, or a stoppage of growth in the whole or a part of a plant, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which frustrates one's plans or withers one's hopes; that which impairs or destroys. [ 1913 Webster ]

A blight seemed to have fallen over our fortunes. Disraeli. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) A downy species of aphis, or plant louse, destructive to fruit trees, infesting both the roots and branches; -- also applied to several other injurious insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. pl. A rashlike eruption on the human skin. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The caliginous regions of the air. Hallywell.

-- Ca*lig"i*nous*ly, adv. -- Ca*lig"i*nous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Never went by candlelight to bed. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]