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e aëroplane, having curved surfaces, the advantages of which were first demonstrated by Lilienthal.

One who flies in an aëroplane.

Positive; -- a term applied to quantities which are to be added, and opposed to negative, or such as are to be subtracted.

To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway.

A South American bird (Psophia crepitans), allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated; -- called also the gold-breasted trumpeter. Its body is about the size of the pheasant. See Trumpeter.

A fucus or seaweed much used in the East for soups and jellies; Ceylon moss (Gracilaria lichenoides).

To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; -- applied to persons, countries, etc. His scheme for aggrandizing his son. Prescott.

Applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; as, aggry beads are found in Ashantee and Fantee in Africa.

Allied; akin. "Agnate words." Pownall. Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former. Landor.

A small insectivorous mammal (Solenodon paradoxus), allied to the moles, found only in Hayti.

On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground. Totten.

With the sails furled, and the helm lashed alee; -- applied to ships in a storm. See Hull, n.

Help; succor; assistance; relief. An unconstitutional mode of obtaining aid. Hallam.

Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases. "Little ailments." Landsdowne.

A man who ascends or flies in an aircraft; a flying machine pilot.

A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.

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

Earlier form of Acknow. [Obs.] To be aknow, to acknowledge; to confess. [Obs.]

A name applied to several large fishes of the Mackerel family, esp. Orcynus alalonga. One species (Orcynus thynnus), common in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, is called in New England the horse mackerel; the tunny. [Written also albacore.]

he nature of, or resembling, the white of the eye, or of an egg; albuminous; -- a term applied to textures, humors, etc., which are perfectly white.