[Alcin`ous], a king of the Phæacians, the father of Nausicaa, who figures in the Odyssey as the host of Ulysses, who had been shipwrecked on his shore.
[Alci`ra] (18), a walled town in Spain, on an island 22 m. SW. of Valencia.
[Alcman], an early Greek lyric poet, born at Sardis.
[Alcme`ne], the wife of Amphitryon and the mother of Hercules.
[Alcmeonidæ], a powerful Athenian family, of which Pericles and Alcibiades were members, who professed to be descended from Alcmæon, the grandson of Nestor.
[Alcock, John], an eminent ecclesiastic of the reign of Edward IV., distinguished for his love of learning and learned men; d. 1500.
[Alcohol], pure or highly rectified spirit obtained from fermented saccharine solutions by distillation, and the intoxicating principle of all spirituous liquors.
[Alcoholism], the results, acute or chronic, of the deleterious action of alcohol on the human system.
[Alcoran`]. See [Korân].
[Alcott, Louisa Mary], a popular American authoress, who acted as a nurse to the wounded during the Civil War; her works mostly addressed to the young (1832-1888).