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One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods.

An encounter either friendly or hostile. [Obs.] I walked about, admired of all, and dreaded On hostile ground, none daring my affront. Milton.

emeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed; as, malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder. Bouvier.

Denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to; as, to look after workmen; to inquire after a friend; to thirst after righteousness.

An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.

From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in contact with; upon; as, hail beats against the roof.

A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.; -- so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.

In eager desire; eager; astir. All agog to dash through thick and thin. Cowper.

A hook, eyelet, or other device by which a piano wire is so held as to limit the vibration.

To dress; to attire; to adorn. [Obs.] Above all knights ye goodly seem aguised. Spenser.

d by a general to carry orders, also to assist or represent him in correspondence and in directing movements.

To point or 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.

One who aims, directs, or points.

a peculiar race inhabiting Yesso, the Kooril Islands etc., in the northern part of the empire of Japan, by some supposed to have been the progenitors of the Japanese. The Ainos are stout and short, with hairy bodies.

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

A stove the draft of which can be almost entirely shut off. [Colloq. U. S.]

An exposure to air, or to a fire, for warming, drying, etc.; as, the airing of linen, or of a room.

A direction for the performer to return and recommence from the sign

The imperial standard of the Turkish Empire.