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Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person.

e person or thing that promotes or helps in something done; a helper; an assistant. It is not good that man should be alone; let us make unto him an aid like unto himself. Tobit viii. 6.

xpress 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.

Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases. "Little ailments." Landsdowne.

A contraction for are not and am not; also used for is not. [Colloq. or llliterate speech]. See An't.

To expose for the sake of public notice; to display ostentatiously; as, to air one's opinion. Airing a snowy hand and signet gem. Tennyson.

A hole to admit or discharge air; specifically, a spot in the ice not frozen over.

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

Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike. "An airy spirit." Shak.

iskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced with alacrity to meet the enemy. I have not that alacrity of spirit, Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have. Shak.

The lowest note but one in Guido Aretino's scale of music.

Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in my holy mountain. Joel ii. 1.

Even though; although; notwithstanding. Chaucer. Albeit so masked, Madam, I love the truth. Tennyson.

Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc.

ts. Acid albumin, a modification of albumin produced by the action of dilute acids. It is not coagulated by heat. -- Alkali albumin, albumin as modified by the action of alkaline substances; -- called also albuminate.

esembling casein in its properties; also, a compound formed by the union of albumin with another substance.

Not having scales. -- n.

Notwithstanding; yet. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The art of calculating with any species of notation; as, the algorithms of fractions, proportions, surds, etc.

At another time.