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To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize. The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Montouth. Macaulay.

which it is regarded as the active principle. It is used in medicine as a stimulant and hemostatic.

The innermost sanctuary or shrine in ancient temples, whence oracles were given. Hence: A private chamber; a sanctum.

generally replaced by a, the long e or ee. In derivatives from Latin words with ae, it is mostly superseded by e. For most words found with this initial combination, the reader will therefore search under the letter E.

Of or pertaining to the air, or atmosphere; inhabiting or frequenting the air; produced by or found in the air; performed in the air; as, aërial regions or currents. "Aërial spirits." Milton. "Aërial voyages." Darwin.

A description of the air or atmosphere; aërology.

That department of physics which treats of the atmosphere.

Divination from the state of the air or from atmospheric substances; also, forecasting changes in the weather.

The observation of the state and variations of the atmosphere.

The atmosphere. [R.]

xcite the emotions; pathetic; touching; as, an affecting address; an affecting sight. The most affecting music is generally the most simple.

Passion; violent emotion. [Obs.] Most wretched man, That to affections does the bridle lend. Spenser.

l affiance in the divine love. Sir J. Stephen. Lancelot, my Lancelot, thou in whom I have Most joy and most affiance. Tennyson.

A fucus or seaweed much used in the East for soups and jellies; Ceylon moss (Gracilaria lichenoides).

Old; having lived long; having lived almost to or beyond the usual time allotted to that species of being; as, an aged man; an aged oak.

asyprocta, about the size of a rabbit, peculiar to South America and the West Indies. The most common species is the Dasyprocta agouti.

The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable.

A stove the draft of which can be almost entirely shut off. [Colloq. U. S.]

All; wholly; completely; as, almighty,almost. (b) Etym: [L. ad.]

Most beloved. [Obs.] Shak.