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A pipe for the passage of air; esp. a ventilating pipe.

erent parts. of the bodies of birds, which are filled with air and connected with the air passages of the lungs; an air cell.

A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel.

Also (perhaps from confusion with alley), a passage into which the pews of a church open.

Controlled by an evil spirit or by evil passions; wild. [Colloq.]

r appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions.

To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to allegorize it.

A narrow passage; especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered way. I know each lane and every alley green. Milton.

A thrust or pass; a lunge.

d, afford, or yield; to let one have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest. He was allowed about three hundred pounds a year. Macaulay.

the sun's amplitude at the time of its rising or setting, to find the variation of the compass.

summits of mountains; specif., a reillumination sometimes observed after the summits have passed into shadow, supposed to be due to a curving downward (refraction) of the light rays from the west resulting from the cooling of the air.

Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously. "Joseph was in Egypt already." Exod. i. 5. I say unto you, that Elias is come already. Matt. xvii. 12.

ime or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal. And bid alternate passions fall and rise. Pope.

A walk or passage; -- applied to passages of various kinds. The sides of every street were covered with fresh alures of marble. T. Warton.

A pastoral sweetheart. To sport with Amaryllis in the shade. Milton.

Encompassing on all sides; circumfused; investing. "Ambient air." Milton. "Ambient clouds." Pope.

Circuit or compass. His great parts did not live within a small ambit. Milward.

Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration; alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.

bill, to make some change in the details or provisions of a bill or measure while on its passage, professedly for its improvement.