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The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.

Void of action.

Without action or spirit. [R.]

The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness.

Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper.

The office of an ædile. T. Arnold.

Free from affliction.

Without old age limits of duration; as, fountains of ageless youth.

Helpless; without aid. Milton.

Without aim or purpose; as, an aimless life. -- Aim"less*ly, adv. -- Aim"less*ness, n.

Not open to a free current of air; wanting fresh air, or communication with the open air.

Without an aisle.

A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a "bush." [Obs.] Chaucer.

A tendency to become alkaline; or the state of a substance in which alkaline properties begin to be developed, or to predominant. Ure.

Tending to the properties of an alkali; slightly alkaline.

Devoid of ambition. Pollok.

Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled.

hat settled in Britain, which came to be called Engla-land (Angleland or England). The Angles probably came from the district of Angeln (now within the limits of Schleswig), and the country now Lower Hanover, etc.

A native sulphate of lead. It occurs in white or yellowish transparent, prismatic crystals.