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Executive; acting; managing affairs. -- n.

The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction; management. His financial administration was of a piece with his military administration. Macaulay.

One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.

The department or officers having authority over naval affairs generally.

Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic. "Fair Adonean Venus." Faber.

Down. [Archaic & Poetic] Her hair adown her shoulders loosely lay displayed. Prior.

Inflamed or scorched; fiery. "The Libyan air adust." Milton.

To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air. His sparkling sallies bubbled up as from aërated natural fountains. Carlyle.

Exposure to the free action of the air; airing; as, aëration of soil, of spawn, etc.

That which supplies with air; esp. an apparatus used for charging mineral waters with gas and in making soda water.

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.

Like, or from, the air; in an aërial manner. "A murmur heard aërially." Tennyson.

Conveying or containing air; air-bearing; as, the windpipe is an aëriferous tube.

The act of combining air with another substance, or the state of being filled with air.

Having the form or nature of air, or of an elastic fluid; gaseous. Hence fig.: Unreal.

To infuse air into; to combine air with.

The combining form of the Greek word meaning air.

Microörganisms which live in contact with the air and need oxygen for their growth; as the microbacteria which form on the surface of putrefactive fluids.

An aëroplane or airship designed to carry passengers.

One of the air cells of algals.