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struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror. Aghast he waked; and, starting from his bed, Cold sweat in clammy drops his limbs o'erspread. Dryden. The commissioners read and stood aghast. Macaulay.

Related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor.

Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation. Bouvier.

A cake of wax stamped with such a figure. It is made from the remains of the paschal candles and blessed by the Pope.

a spell or charm against ague. Gay. -- Ague tree, the sassafras, -- sometimes so called from the use of its root formerly, in cases of ague. [Obs.]

In or to the front; in advance; onward. The island bore but a little ahead of us. Fielding.

aid. Aid prayer (Law), a proceeding by which a defendant beseeches and claims assistance from some one who has a further or more permanent interest in the matter in suit. -- To pray in aid, to beseech and claim such assistance.

A hole to admit or discharge air; specifically, a spot in the ice not frozen over.

A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone; an aërophyte.

A kind of pump for exhausting air from a vessel or closed space; also, a pump to condense air of force in into a closed space.

A lateral division of a building, separated from the middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall.

Ajowan, used both as a medicine and as a condiment. An oil containing thymol is extracted from it. Called also Javanee seed, Javanese seed, and ajava.

A direction for the performer to return and recommence from the sign

A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made. Fosbroke.

A white crystalline base, C3H7NO2, derived from aldehyde ammonia.

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 white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta- percha by the action of alcohol or ether.

st 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.

Whiteness. Specifically: (Astron.) The ratio which the light reflected from an unpolished surface bears to the total light falling upon that surface.

A picture printed from a kind of gelatine plate produced by means of a photographic negative.