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An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment. Cussans.

ocess in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.

A group of suctorial Infusoria, which in the adult stage are stationary. See Suctoria.

muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration.

were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.

taining to Æolus, the mythic god of the winds; pertaining to, or produced by, the wind; aërial. Viewless forms the æolian organ play. Campbell. Æolian attachment, a contrivance often attached to a pianoforte, which prolongs the vibrations, increases the

To expose to the chemical action of air; to oxygenate (the blood) by respiration; to arterialize. Aërated bread, bread raised by charging dough with carbonic acid gas, instead of generating the gas in the dough by fermentation.

blood by exposure to the air in respiration; oxygenation of the blood in respiration; arterialization.

An aërial navigator; a balloonist.

Pertaining to aëronautics, or aërial sailing.

The science or art of ascending and sailing in the air, as by means of a balloon; aërial navigation; ballooning.

Aërial navigation; the art of raising and guiding balloons in the air.

Aërial; ethereal; incorporeal; visionary. [Poetic] M. Arnold.

A material object (vaguely designated). A certain affair of fine red cloth much worn and faded. Hawthorne.

To aim at; to aspire; to covet. [Obs.] This proud man affects imperial Dryden.

Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc. See Agglutination, 2.

To bring, or tend to bring, to a uniform grade, or slope, by addition of material; as, streams aggrade their beds by depositing sediment.

A path through the air made easy for aërial navigation by steady winds.

Art, skill, or ability in the practice of aërial navigation.

Affected with aërial sickness. -- Air"sick`ness, n.