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Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person.

The Evil Principle or Being of the ancient Persians; the Prince of Darkness as opposer to Ormuzd, the King of Light.

n to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist. You speedy helpers . . . Appear and aid me in this enterprise. Shak.

or an arrow, the fist or a blow (at something); to aim a satire or a reflection (at some person or vice).

The peculiar look, appearance, and bearing of a person; mien; demeanor; as, the air of a youth; a heavy air; a lofty air. "His very air." Shak.

A jacket having air-tight cells, or cavities which can be filled with air, to render persons buoyant in swimming.

Lightness of spirits; gayety; levity; as, the airiness of young persons.

A thoughtless, gay person. [Obs.] "Slight airlings." B. Jonson.

Of the same kin; related by blood; -- used of persons; as, the two families are near akin.

A mechanical contrivance for awaking persons from sleep, or rousing their attention; an alarum. Alarm bell, a bell that gives notice on danger. -- Alarm clock or watch, a clock or watch which can be so set as to ring or strike loudly at a prearranged hour, to wake from sleep, or excite attention. -- Alarm gauge, a co…

A vestment of white linen, reaching to the feet, an enveloping the person; -- in the Roman Catholic church, worn by those in holy orders when officiating at mass. It was formerly worn, at least by clerics, in daily life.

A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, 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…

A person given to the use of alcoholic liquors.

A senior or superior; a person of rank or dignity. [Obs.]

made of aleurone, used as a substitute for ordinary flour in preparing bread for diabetic persons.

A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.

A fixed star, in Medusa's head, in the constellation Perseus, remarkable for its periodic variation in brightness.

The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi.

everything included or concerned; the aggregate; the whole; totality; everything or every person; as, our all is at stake. Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all. Shak. All that thou seest is mine. Gen. xxxi. 43.

All four legs of a quadruped; or the two legs and two arms of a person. To be, go, or run, on all fours (Fig.), to be on the same footing; to correspond (with) exactly; to be alike in all the circumstances to be considered. "This example is on all fours with the other." "No simile can go on all fours." Macaulay.…