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allis

allis \allis\ n. 1. a European shad, ( Alosa alosa).

Syn: allice shad, allis shad, allice

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allis

n. European shad [syn: allice shad, allis shad, allice, Alosa alosa]

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Allis (surname)

Allis is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Edward P. Allis, founder of what was to become Allis-Chalmers, and prominent in the Greenback Movement
  • Charles David Allis (born 1951), American biologist
  • John Allis (born 1942), American cyclist
  • Louis Allis (1916–1994), American industrialist and Wisconsin Secretary of State
  • Oswald T. Allis (1880–1973), American theologian
  • William Allis (1901–1999), an American theoretical physicist specializing in electrical discharges in gases

Usage examples of "allis".

He claims his relationship with Allison was strictly aboveboard, but all signs point to an affair.

The next day he talked the district manager of Allis Chalmers into letting him sell in three more areas.

Hamm soon sat there eating and talking all about tractors, farmers, Allis Chalmers and anything else that came to mind, including a joke he had just heard.

It introduced him as a salesman for the Allis-Chalmers tractor company.

Will Shimfissle continued on, somehow sorry that the Allis-Chalmers man had not even tried to sell him a tractor.

Bill, waiting on tables in the dorm six hours a day, and selling Allis-Chalmers tractors on the weekends and during summers to help support his mother and two younger sisters.

But in 1952 the urge to go into politics was too great, so he quit his job at the Allis-Chalmers tractor company and ran for Pettis County commissioner of agriculture.

The wives of the Allis Chalmers tractor company took out a full-page ad in the farmers' weekly that went all over the state.

Gregory recognized the voice as soon as he heard the first word: it was Allis, the duty officer at the Yard.

Normally Matt's tobacco-brown-skinned face was animated and his black eyes twinkled with merriment, but like Craig, the strain he'd been under since Allison's murder almost a week ago was beginning to show.

After all, this was the coroner's inquest into the death of Allison Jane Barrett, estranged wife of popular daytime television talk-show host Craig Barrett.

Due to overwhelming public interest in Allison's death, this inquest was being held in Judge Witherspoon's courtroom.

The deputy coroner's voice droned on as he responded to a series of technical questions:' the position of the body when he arrived, whether the body had been moved, the direction of the blows and whether there was evidence of sexual assault or the presence of drugs or alcohol in Allison's system.

God, she didn't want to believe he could hurt anyone, least of all Allison, but with their family history, she had to face the fact that it was possible.

Besides, the number of reporters camped outside your house has probably doubled now that Allison's death has been officially ruled a homicide.