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An agriculturist (which is the preferred form.)

A disease occurring in Bengal and other parts of the East Indies, in which the tongue chaps and cleaves.

That part of botany which treats of the grasses.

Anything which prevents sleep, or produces wakefulness, as strong tea or coffee.

e-camp, so called by abbreviation; as, a general's aid. Aid prayer (Law), a proceeding by which a defendant beseeches and claims assistance from some one who has a further or more permanent interest in the matter in suit. -- To pray in aid, to beseech and claim such assistance.

One who, or that which, aids.

A group of the Carnivora, which includes the cats, civets, and hyenas.

To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a fox, or at a target.

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

A kind of gun in which the elastic force of condensed air is used to discharge the ball. The air is powerfully compressed into a reservoir attached to the gun, by a condensing pump, and is controlled by a valve actuated by the trigger.

A jacket having air-tight cells, or cavities which can be filled with air, to render persons buoyant in swimming.

One of the spaces in different parts. of the bodies of birds, which are filled with air and connected with the air passages of the lungs; an air cell.

A stove for heating a current of air which is directed against its surface by means of pipes, and then distributed through a building.

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

A frame on which clothes are aired or dried.

building, separated from the middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall.

A tube through which is water is discharged; an efflux tube; as, the ajutage of a fountain.

A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made. Fosbroke.

larm bell, a bell that gives notice on danger. -- Alarm clock or watch, a clock or watch which can be so set as to ring or strike loudly at a prearranged hour, to wake from sleep, or excite attention. -- Alarm gauge, a contrivance attached to a steam boiler for showing when the pressure of steam is too high, or the w…

who had been baptized on Easter eve laid aside on the following Saturday their white albs which had been put on after baptism.