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Positive; dogmatic. [Obs.] J. Taylor. Lysicles was a little by the affirmative air of Crito. Berkeley.

ension, perhaps less than terror. He looks behind him with affright, and forward with despair. Goldsmith.

Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat.

An unexpected subsequent event; something disagreeable happening after an affair is supposed to be at an end. Spenser.

for all that. Holland. I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-colored, hair here and there. Landor.

on; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper.

Hooks and eyes for armor, etc. Fairholt.

formerly worn on the shoulders of knights, -- being the prototype of the modern epaulet. Fairholt.

pposed to have been the progenitors of the Japanese. The Ainos are stout and short, with hairy bodies.

gh, or the water in the boiler too low. -- Alarm post, a place to which troops are to repair in case of an alarm.

larmed neighborhood; an alarmed modesty. The white pavilions rose and fell On the alarmed air. Longfellow.

ite, 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 the lower animals, as white mice, elep…

Dung of dogs or hyenas, which becomes white by exposure to air. It is used in dressing leather, and was formerly used in medicine.

oup called the Hyades. Now when Aldebaran was mounted high Above the shiny Cassiopeia's chair. Spenser.

In the open-air. Smollett.

By any or means; at all events. [Obs.] Fairfax.

and some, individually and collectively, one and all. [Obs.] "Displeased all and some." Fairfax. -- All but. (a) Scarcely; not even. [Obs.] Shak. (b) Almost; nearly. "The fine arts were all but proscribed." Macaulay. -- All hollow, entirely, completely; as, to beat any one all hollow. [Low] -- All one, the same thin…

A kind of light armor used in the sixteenth century, esp. by the Swiss. Fairholt.

One of the pure unit characters commonly existing singly or in pairs in the germ cells of Mendelian hybrids, and exhibited in varying proportion among the organisms themselves. Allelomorphs which under certain circumstances are themselves compound are called hypallelomorphs. See Mendel's law. -- Al*le`lo*mor"phic (#),…

To abate, impair, or debase by mixture; to allay; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes.