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of air which is directed against its surface by means of pipes, and then distributed through a building.

Any device, as a balloon, aëroplane, etc., for floating in, or flying through, the air.

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

A tube through which is water is discharged; an efflux tube; as, the ajutage of a fountain.

Although; if. [Obs.] See All, conj.

monly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise. Alarm and resentment spread throughout the camp. Macaulay.

Although; albeit. [Obs.] Albe Clarissa were their chiefest founderess. Spenser.

Even though; although; notwithstanding. Chaucer. Albeit so masked, Madam, I love the truth. Tennyson.

A diseased condition of the system, brought about by the continued use of alcoholic liquors.

commonly, inability, due to brain disease, to understand written or printed symbols although they can be seen, as in case of word blindness.

d in the record by unconformities. Algonkian rocks are both sedimentary and igneous. Although fossils are rare, life certainly existed in this period. -- n.

p. [R.] "It the son alien lands." Sir M. Hale. The prince was totally aliened from all thoughts of . . . the marriage. Clarendon.

The state of being alienated or transferred to another. Brougham.

entire channel, extending from the mouth to the anus, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the useless parts ejected.

warming; thronged. The Boyne, for a quarter of a mile, was alive with muskets and green boughs. Macaulay.

hing in effect; that is, wholly the same thing. -- All over, over the whole extent; thoroughly; wholly; as, she is her mother all over. [Colloq.] -- All the better, wholly the better; that is, better by the whole difference. -- All the same, nevertheless. "There they [certain phenomena] remain rooted all the same, wh…

That which is alleged, asserted, or declared; positive assertion; formal averment I thought their allegation but reasonable. Steele.

The act alluring; temptation; enticement. Though Adam by his wife's allurement fell. Milton.

In company; together. He to England shall along with you. Shak. All along, all trough the course of; during the whole time; throughout. "I have all along declared this to be a neutral paper." Addison. -- To get along, to get on; to make progress, as in business. "She 'll get along in heaven better than you or I." Mrs.…

The act of altering or making different. Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. Hooker.