See **ALCORAN**.

**ALL-HALLOWS**. See **ALL-SAINTR**.

**ALL-GOOD**. See **CHENOPODIUM**.

**ALL-HEAL**. See **HERACLEUM** and **STACHYS**.

**ALL-SAINTR**, in the calendar, denotes a festival celebrated on the first of November, in commemoration of all the saints in general; which is otherwise called **All-hallows**. The number of saints being so excessively multiplied, it was found too burdensome to dedicate a feast-day to each. In reality, there are not days enough, scarce hours enough, in the year, for this purpose. Hence an expedient was had recourse to, by commemorating such in the lump as had not their own days. Boniface IV. in the ninth century, introduced All-Saints the feast of All Saints in Italy, which was soon after adopted into the other churches.

**ALL-SAINTS BAY,** a spacious harbour near St Salvador in Brazil, in S. America, on the Atlantic Ocean. W. long. 40°, S. lat. 12°.

**ALL-SOULS,** in the calendar, denotes a feast-day, held on the second of November, in commemoration of all the faithful deceased.—The feast of All-Souls was first introduced in the eleventh century, by Odilon abbot of Cluny, who enjoined it on his own order; but it was not long before it became adopted by the neighbouring churches.

**ALL-SPICE.** See Myrtus and Calycanthus.

**ALLA,** or Allah, the name by which the professors of Mahometanism call the Supreme Being.

The term alla is Arabic, derived from the verb alah, to adore. It is the same with the Hebrew Eloah, which signifies the Adorable Being.

**ALLAMANDA,** in botany; a genus of the monogynia order, belonging to the pentandria clas of plants. The characters are: The calyx is a five-leav'd perianthium: The corolla consists of one funnel-shaped petal; the tube cylindric; the border semiquinquefied and ventricose; the divisions expanding and obtuse: The stamina have scarce any filaments; the anthers are five, arrow-shap'd, converging, in the throat of the tube: The pistillum has an oval germ, girt at the base with an annular margin; the style is filiform, the length of the tube; the stigma is headed, and contracted in the middle: The pericarpium is an orbicular, compris'd, briefly capsule, containing one cell with two valves: The seeds are imbricated, orbicular, flat, with a membranaceous wing on the margin, and are very numerous. There is but one species, the cathartica, a native of Surinam.

**ALLANTOIS,** or Allantoides, a gut-shaped vehicle investing the fetus of cows, goats, sheep, &c., filled with an urinous liquor conveyed to it from the urachus.—(See Comparative Anatomy). Anatomists are not agreed whether the allantois has any existence in the human species or not.