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Near the wind; as, to lay a ship ahold. [Obs.] Shak.

pulated by the pilot of a flying machine to preserve or destroy lateral balance; a hinged wing tip; a lateral stabilizing or balancing plane.

Air in motion; a light breeze; a gentle wind. Let vernal airs through trembling osiers play. Pope.

A path through the air made easy for aërial navigation by steady winds.

he nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall.

A winglike organ, or part.

Pertaining to, or having, wings.

ep, or excite attention. -- Alarm gauge, a contrivance attached to a steam boiler for showing when the pressure of steam is too high, or the water in the boiler too low. -- Alarm post, a place to which troops are to repair in case of an alarm.

Of or pertaining to wings; also, wing-shaped. The alary system of insects. Wollaston.

Winged; having wings, or side appendages like wings.

The state of being winged.

ause in the early church those who had been baptized on Easter eve laid aside on the following Saturday their white albs which had been put on after baptism.

Growing or becoming white.

Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified spirit (called also ethyl alcohol); the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented or distilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine…

A tree, usually growing in moist land, and belonging to the genus Alnus. The wood is used by turners, etc.; the bark by dyers and tanners. In 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 ve…

(Angling) An artificial fly with brown mottled wings, body of peacock harl, and black legs.

On or toward the lee, or the side away from the wind; the opposite of aweather. The helm of a ship is alee when pressed close to the lee side. Hard alee, or Luff alee, an order to put the helm to the lee side.

An instrument for viewing pictures by means of a lens, so as to present them in their natural proportions and relations.

A kind of wine, formerly much esteemed; -- said to have been made near Alicant, in Spain. J. Fletcher.

raduated instrument, as a quadrant or astrolabe, carrying the sights or telescope, and showing the degrees cut off on the arc of the instrument Whewell.