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On high; in the air; high above the ground. "He steers his flight aloft." Milton.

To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum. Ure.

. Alveolar processes, the processes of the maxillary bones, containing the sockets of the teeth.

A family of plants much esteemed for their beauty, including the narcissus, jonquil, daffodil, agave, and others.

Self-love; self-esteem.

A numerous group of fourteen -- footed Crustacea, inhabiting both fresh and salt water. The body is usually compressed laterally, and the anterior pairs or legs are directed downward and forward, but the posterior legs are usually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostr…

An East Indian money of account, the sixteenth of a rupee, or about 2

To subject to great heat, and then cool slowly, as glass, cast iron, steel, or other metal, for the purpose of rendering it less brittle; to temper; to toughen.

A genus of fresh-water bivalves, having to teeth at the hinge. [Written also Anodonta.]

gypsum quarries near Paris; characterized by the shortness and feebleness of their canine teeth (whence the name).

re horn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag. Huge stags with sixteen antlers. Macaulay.

An iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped.

any degree; at all. You are not to go loose any longer. Shak. Before you go any farther. Steele.

A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadæ, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadruma…

, a celebrated statue of Apollo in the Belvedere gallery of the Vatican palace at Rome, esteemed of the noblest representations of the human frame.

llegiance; renegade. So spake the apostate angel. Milton. A wretched and apostate state. Steele.

The person who selects the appointee. See Appointee, 2.

A barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant. [Obs.] Blackstone.

The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).

queous deposit. Dana. Aqueous extract, an extract obtained from a vegetable substance by steeping it in water. -- Aqueous humor (Anat.), one the humors of the eye; a limpid fluid, occupying the space between the crystalline lens and the cornea. (See Eye.) -- Aqueous rocks (Geol.), those which are deposited from water…