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Allworth (Lady), stepmother to Tom Allworth. Sir Giles Overreach thought she would marry his nephew Wellborn, but she married lord Lovel.

Tom Allworth, stepson of lady Allworth, in love with Margaret Overreach, whom he marries.—Massinger: A New Way to pay Old Debts (1625).

The first appearance of Thomas King was “Allworth, on the 19th October, 1748.
   —Boaden.

Allworthy, in Fielding’s Tom Jones, a man of sturdy rectitude, large charity, infinite modesty, independent spirit, and untiring philanthropy, with an utter disregard of money of fame. Fielding’s friend, Ralph Allen, was the academy figure of this character. (See ALLEN.)

Alma [the human soul], queen of “Body Castle,” which for seven years was beset by a rabble rout. Spenser says, “The divine part of man is circular, and the mortal part triangular.” Arthur and sir Guyon were conducted by Alma over “Body Castle.”—Spenser: Faërie Queene, ii. 9 (1590).

Prior wrote a poem called Alma, in three cantos.

Almain, Germany; in French Allemagne. (See ALLEMAYNE.)

Almansor (“the invincible”), a title assumed by several Mussulman princes, as by the second caliph of the Abbasside dynasty, named Abou Giafar Abdallah (the invincible, or al mansor). Also by the famous captain of the Moors in Spain, named Mohammed. In Africa, Yacoub-al-Modjahed was entitled “al mansor,” a royal name of dignity given to the kings of Fez, Morocco, and Algiers.

The kingdoms of Almansor, Fez, and Sus, Marocco and Algiers.
   —Milton: Paradise Lost, xi. 403 (1665).