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The science that treats of the equilibrium of elastic fluids, or that of bodies sustained in them. Hence it includes aëronautics.

A breath or blast of wind.

The last milk drawn in milking; strokings. [Obs.] Grose.

cean to its arrival at a given place. -- Moon's age, the time that has elapsed since the last preceding conjunction of the sun and moon.

The last struggle of life; death struggle.

An instrument for boring holes, used in blasting.

e earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable.

A drill driven by the elastic pressure of condensed air; a pneumatic drill. Knight.

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.

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

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

To allay or alleviate; to lighten. [Obs.] That shall alegge this bitter blast. Spenser.

denote the beginning. In am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Rev. xxii. 13.

ne of several things offered to choose among. My decided preference is for the fourth and last of thalternatives. Gladstone.

nd is used in medicine as an expectorant and resolvent, and for the formation of certain plasters.

iron. Some common varieties are tremolite, actinolite, asbestus, edenite, hornblende (the last name being also used as a general term for the whole species). Amphibole is a constituent of many crystalline rocks, as syenite, diorite, most varieties of trachyte, etc. See Hornblende.

A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (as, h. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet''ic.

Forming starch; -- applied specif. to leucoplasts.

A repetition of the last word or any prominent word in a sentence or clause, at the beginning of the next, with an adjunct idea; as, "He retained his virtues amidst all his misfortunes -- misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent."

A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented; the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin d, and in English in-ter-vene, are examples of anapests.