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oril Islands etc., in the northern part of the empire of Japan, by some supposed to have been the progenitors of the Japanese. The Ainos are stout and short, with hairy bodies.

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

illed gap in a magnetic or electric circuit; specif., in a dynamo or motor, the space between the field-magnet poles and the armature; clearance.

A grayish green antiseptic powder, consisting of a basic iodide and gallate of bismuth, sometimes used in place of iodoform. [A Trademark]

le, in a river or lake; an eyot. The ait where the osiers grew. R. Hodges (1649). Among green aits and meadows. Dickens.

Lately; of late. [Archaic] There hath been alate such tales spread abroad. Latimer.

An ornamental evergreen shrub (Rhamnus alaternus) belonging to the buckthorns.

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.

ies. They are the largest of sea birds, capable of long- continued flight, and are often seen at great distances from the land. They are found chiefly in the southern hemisphere.

The imaginary milk-white animal on which Mohammed was said to have been carried up to heaven; a white mule.

The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood.

nsmuting something common into something precious. Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy. Shak.

the 16th century and known by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been applied to certain elegant editions of English works.

CH3CHO = H3CH(OH)CH2CO; also, any of various derivatives of this. The same reaction has been applied, under the name of aldol condensation, to the production of many compounds.

Of or pertaining to a chain of islands between Alaska and Kamtchatka; also, designating these islands.

ity, due to brain disease, to understand written or printed symbols although they can be seen, as in case of word blindness.

eaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervæ, etc.

ritings. Algebraic curve, a curve such that the equation which expresses the relation between the coördinates of its points involves only the ordinary operations of algebra; -- opposed to a transcendental curve.

or era recognized by the United States Geological Survey and some other authorities, between the Archæan and the Paleozoic, from both of which it is generally separated in the record by unconformities. Algonkian rocks are both sedimentary and igneous. Although fossils are rare, life certainly existed in this period. -…

A kind of wine, formerly much esteemed; -- said to have been made near Alicant, in Spain. J. Fletcher.