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A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold. Dryden. Ague cake, an enlargement of the spleen produced by ague. -- Ague drop, a solution of the arsenite of potassa used for ague. -- Ague fit, a fit of the ague. Shak. -- Ague spell, a spell or charm against ague. Gay. -- Ague tree, the sassafras, -- sometimes so calle…

Without female organs; male.

An exclamation expressing, by different intonations, triumph, mixed with derision or irony, or simple surprise.

Headlong; without restraint. [Obs.] L'Estrange. To go ahead. (a) To go in advance. (b) To go on onward. (c) To push on in an enterprise. [Colloq] -- To get ahead of. (a) To get in advance of.

With the sails furled, and the helm lashed alee; -- applied to ships in a storm. See Hull, n.

Pinched with hunger; very hungry. C. Bronté.

Helpless; without aid. Milton.

To affect with pain or uneasiness, either physical or mental; to trouble; to be the matter with; -- used to express some uneasiness or affection, whose cause is unknown; as, what ails the man I know not what ails him. What aileth thee, Hagar Gen. xxi. 17.

direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a fox, or at a target.

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

ome supposed to have been the progenitors of the Japanese. The Ainos are stout and short, with hairy bodies.

Symbolically: Something unsubstantial, light, or volatile. "Charm ache with air." Shak. He was still all air and fire. Macaulay . [Air and fire being the finer and quicker elements as opposed to earth and water.]

A sack or matters inflated with air, and used as a bed.

the lungs of air-breathing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or esophagus.

A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant.

A jacket having air-tight cells, or cavities which can be filled with air, to render persons buoyant in swimming.

One of the spaces in different parts. of the bodies of birds, which are filled with air and connected with the air passages of the lungs; an air cell.

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

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

Without reality; having no solid foundation; empty; trifling; visionary. "Airy fame." Shak. Empty sound, and airy notions. Roscommon.