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To lighten or lessen the force or weight of. [Obs.] Should no others join capable to alleviate the expense. Evelyn. Those large bladders . . . conduce much to the alleviating of the body [of flying birds]. Ray.

The act of alleviating; a lightening of weight or severity; mitigation; relief.

Tending to alleviate. -- n.

One who, or that which, alleviaties.

Alleviative. Carlyle.

osits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.

Before the flood, or Deluge, in Noah's time.

elating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle. -- n.

One who works a mine with means provided by another. [Sp. Amer. & Southwestern U. S.]

Of or instrument to birds.

or other place, for keeping birds confined; a bird house. Lincolnshire may be termed the aviary of England. Fuller.

To fly, or navigate the air, in an aëroplane or heavier-than- air flying machine. [Colloq.]

The art or science of flying.

An experimenter in aviation.

A woman aviator.

Of or pertaining to (a) the Batavi, an ancient Germanic tribe; or to (b) as, a Batavian legion. Batavian Republic, the name given to Holland by the French after its conquest in 1795.

A baboon.

Belonging to Belgravia (a fashionable quarter of London, around Pimlico), or to fashionable life; aristocratic.

Of or relating to the bivium.

Of or pertaining to Bolivia. -- n.