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One who contends for the prize in public games. [R.]

An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.

An equal or equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land.

One who agrees.

er (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.

ntal; to trouble; to be the matter with; -- used to express some uneasiness or affection, whose cause is unknown; as, what ails the man I know not what ails him. What aileth thee, Hagar Gen. xxi. 17.

One who aims, directs, or points.

That which surrounds and influences. The keen, the wholesome air of poverty. Wordsworth.

A fault in a casting, produced by a bubble of air; a blowhole.

One who exposes to the air.

A man who ascends or flies in an aircraft; a flying machine pilot.

A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.

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

st Sunday after Easter Sunday, properly Albless Sunday, because in the early church those who had been baptized on Easter eve laid aside on the following Saturday their white albs which had been put on after baptism.

A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes is deficient or in a morbid state. An albino has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of…

One who practices alchemy. You are alchemist; make gold. Shak.

One who adheres to the letter of the Koran, rejecting all traditions.

A woman who keeps an alehouse. Gay.

Always; wholly; everywhere. [Obs.] Ulna now he algates must forego. Spenser.