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An artificial or affected manner; show of pride or vanity; haughtiness; as, it is said of a person, he puts on airs. Thackeray.

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

Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand. [Colloq.]

Affected with albinism.

Affected with albinism.

Affected with amaurosis; having the characteristics of amaurosis.

Affected with love; in love; enamored; -- usually with of; formerly with on. Thy roses amorous of the moon. Keats. High nature amorous of the good. Tennyson. Sure my brother is amorous on Hero. Shak.

Belonging, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical. Wiseman.

To affect or be affected with anchylosis; to unite or consolidate so as to make a stiff joint; to grow together into one. [Spelt also ankylose.] Owen.

One affected with Anglomania.

ak in line with it. Unless they become themselves infected by previously biting a subject affected with malaria, the insects cannot transmit the disease.

Pertaining to, or affected by, aphasia; speechless.

ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling. The apish gallantry of a fantastic boy. Sir W. Scott.

One liable to, or affected with, apoplexy.

Relating to apoplexy; affected with, inclined to, or symptomatic of, apoplexy; as, an apoplectic person, medicine, habit or temperament, symptom, fit, or stroke.

Affected with apoplexy. [Obs.] Shak.

Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine. "Artificial tears." Shak.

In an artless manner; without art, skill, or guile; unaffectedly. Pope.

Of, pertaining to, or affected by, ascites; dropsical.

Affected by shame; abashed or confused by guilt, or a conviction or consciousness of some wrong action or impropriety. "I am ashamed to beg." Wyclif. All that forsake thee shall be ashamed. Jer. xvii. 13. I began to be ashamed of sitting idle. Johnson. Enough to make us ashamed of our species. Macaulay. An ashamed pers…