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A fossil plant from the coal formations of Europe and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites.

The science of aërolites.

The quality of being attainable; attainbleness.

The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.

The quality of being audible; power of being heard; audible capacity.

Automatic stability; also, inherent stability. An aëroplane is inherently stable if it keeps in steady poise by virtue of its shape and proportions alone; it is automatically stable if it keeps in steady poise by means of self-operative mechanism.

The quality of being available; availableness.

A worshiper of Baal; a devotee of any false religion; an idolater.

A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite.

trivial; the commonplace, in speech. The highest things were thus brought down to the banalities of discourse. J. Morley.

To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way. T. Jefferson.

The state or quality of being bestial.

The quality of being biblical; a biblical subject. [R.]

State of being bilateral.

Consisting of two letters; as, a biliteral root of a Sanskrit verb. Sir W. Jones. -- n.

The property or state of being biliteral.

A genus of herbs (Blitum) with a fleshy calyx. Blitum capitatum is the strawberry blite.

Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit. The blithe sounds of festal music. Prescott. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Milton.

Gay; full of gayety; joyous.

In a blithe manner.