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The science or art of ascending and sailing in the air, as by means of a balloon; aërial navigation; ballooning.

To offend by some manifestation of disrespect; to insult to the face by demeanor or language; to treat with marked incivility. How can any one imagine that the fathers would have dared to affront the wife of Aurelius Addison.

To pour out or upon. [R.] I first affused water upon the compressed beans. Boyle.

and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.

age." Tennyson. Age of a tide, the time from the origin of a tide in the South Pacific Ocean to its arrival at a given place. -- Moon's age, the time that has elapsed since the last preceding conjunction of the sun and moon.

Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc. See Agglutination, 2.

Combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See Agglutinative, 2.

nent parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.

To support, either by furnishing strength or means in coöperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist. You speedy helpers . . . Appear and aid me in this enterprise. Shak.

The small white European heron. See Egret.

The peculiar look, appearance, and bearing of a person; mien; demeanor; as, the air of a youth; a heavy air; a lofty air. "His very air." Shak.

ngine motor vehicles, the cooling of the cylinder by increasing its radiating surface by means of ribs or radiators, and placing it so that it is exposed to a current of air. Cf. Water cooling. -- Air"-cooled`, a.

A stove for heating a current of air which is directed against its surface by means of pipes, and then distributed through a building.

Divination by means of barley meal. Knowles.

A picture printed from a kind of gelatine plate produced by means of a photographic negative.

rel family, esp. Orcynus alalonga. One species (Orcynus thynnus), common in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, is called in New England the horse mackerel; the tunny. [Written also albacore.]

The bleak, a small European fish having scales of a peculiarly silvery color which are used in making artificial pearls.

A genus of perching birds, including the European kingfisher (Alcedo ispida). See Halcyon.

the U. S. the species of alder are usually shrubs or small trees. Black alder. (a) A European shrub (Rhamnus frangula); Alder buckthorn. (b) An American species of holly (Ilex verticillata), bearing red berries.

Divination by means of a cock and grains of corn placed on the letters of the alphabet, the letters being put together in the order in which the grains were eaten. Amer. Cyc.