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Acting by the force of air and water; as, an aërohydrodynamic wheel.

The act of affecting or acting upon; the state of being affected.

The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality. The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. Woodward.

Actingpatient, or sustaining, action. [Archaic] "The body agent." Bacon.

Expelling or counteracting poison; antidotal.

That attracts; attracting. -- n.

A substance produced by acting upon uric with warm and very dilute nitric acid.

That allures; attracting; charming; tempting. -- Al*lur"ing*ly, adv. -- Al*lur"ing*ness, n.

Acting by turns; alternate. Milton. Altern base (Trig.), a second side made base, in distinction from a side previously regarded as base.

Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye. -- Am`e*trop"ic, a.

Showing anger; proceeding from anger; acting as if moved by anger; wearing the marks of anger; as, angry words or tones; an angry sky; angry waves. "An angry countenance." Prov. xxv. 23.

The act or making narrow; a straitening or contacting. Wiseman.

Antagonistic; opposing; counteracting; as, antagonist schools of philosophy.

Opposing in combat, combating; contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces. -- An*tag`o*nis"tic*al*ly, adv. They were distinct, adverse, even antagonistic. Milman.

Counteracting or preventing hydrophobia. -- n.

Counteracting hysteria. -- n.

Counteracting, or deemed of use in, diseases of the kidneys. -- n.

Opposed to, or checking motion; acting upward; -- applied to an inverted action of the intestinal tube.

Counteracting inflammation.

Counteracting, or preserving from, putrefaction; antiseptic.