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In harmonized chorals, psalmody, part songs, etc., the part which bears the tune or melody -- in modern harmony usually the upper part -- is sometimes called the air.

A sac or bladder full of air in an animal or plant; also an air hole in a casting.

A kind of pump for exhausting air from a vessel or closed space; also, a pump to condense air of force in into a closed space.

Improperly used also for the have; -- as in the phrases, a church with three aisles, the middle aisle.

The bone of the rump; also, the cut of beef surrounding this bone. [Spelt also edgebone.]

h as a medicine and as a condiment. An oil containing thymol is extracted from it. Called also Javanee seed, Javanese seed, and ajava.

Of or pertaining to wings; also, wing-shaped. The alary system of insects. Wollaston.

iterranean and Atlantic, is called in New England the horse mackerel; the tunny. [Written also albacore.]

h hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from the absence of chlorophyll. Amer. Cyc.

plastic cement, or artificial stone, consisting chiefly of magnesia and silica; -- called also albolite.

and of the serum of blood, and is found in other animal substances, both fluid and solid, also in many plants. It is soluble in water is coagulated by heat ad by certain chemical reagents. Acid albumin, a modification of albumin produced by the action of dilute acids. It is not coagulated by heat. -- Alkali albumin, a…

roduced by the action of an alkali upon albumin, and resembling casein in its properties; also, a compound formed by the union of albumin with another substance.

One of a class of organic principles (called also proteids) which form the main part of organized tissues. Brunton.

s of compounds formed from albumin by dilute acids or by an acid solution of pepsin. Used also in combination, as antialbumose, hemialbumose.

The jurisdiction or office of an alcalde; also, the building or chamber in which he conducts the business of his office.

A fortress; also, a royal palace. Prescott.

An imaginary art which aimed to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It led the way to modern chemistry.

Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified spirit (called also ethyl alcohol); the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented or distilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine…

To convert into alcohol; to rectify; also, to saturate with alcohol.

The Mohammedan Scriptures; the Koran (now the usual form). [Spelt also Alcoran.]