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Having an acid quality; sour; acidulous. "With anxious, acidulent face." Carlyle.

State of being acquainted; degree of acquaintance. [R.] Boyle.

A servile or hypocritical flatterer. Carlyle.

Faintly representing; typical. Carlyle.

To cut with an adz. [R.] Carlyle.

called fixed air. His sparkling sallies bubbled up as from aërated natural fountains. Carlyle.

ate; as, figure, weight, etc. , are affections of bodies. "The affections of quantity." Boyle. And, truly, waking dreams were, more or less, An old and strange affection of the house. Tennyson.

from hence into Spain. Wotton. There is an unusual affluence of strangers this year. Carlyle.

To pour out or upon. [R.] I first affused water upon the compressed beans. Boyle.

Gregarious; social. [R.] Carlyle.

To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated. Boyle.

See Ayle. [Obs.]

Peculiar appearance; apparent character; semblance; manner; style. It was communicated with the air of a secret. Pope.

Pertaining to Alcæus, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000 b. c. -- n. A kind of verse, so called from Alcæus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls.

The fluid essence or pure spirit obtained by distillation. [Obs.] Boyle.

Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture.

other derivatives of the paraffin hydrocarbons, but also unsaturated compounds, as the ethylene and acetylene series.

Alkaline. [Obs.] Boyle.

Alleviative. Carlyle.

To amalgamate. Boyle. B. Jonson.