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The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime. Mine age is as nothing before thee. Ps. xxxix. 5.

Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective.

Activity; powerful agency. [Obs.] The agility of the sun's fiery heat. Holland.

ing to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural. As a scholar, he [Dr. Parr] was brilliant, but he consumed his power in agonistic displays. De Quincey.

Hooks and eyes for armor, etc. Fairholt.

A strong alcoholic drink, especially pulque. [Mexico and Spanish America.]

An instrument for boring holes, used in blasting.

merly worn on the shoulders of knights, -- being the prototype of the modern epaulet. Fairholt.

That which surrounds and influences. The keen, the wholesome air of poverty. Wordsworth.

A sac or bladder full of air in an animal or plant; also an air hole in a casting.

A hollow cylinder to contain air. It is closed above and open below, and has its open end plunged into water.

All; wholly; completely; as, almighty,almost. (b) Etym: [L. ad.]

A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made. Fosbroke.

ng danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in my holy mountain. Joel ii. 1.

stment of white linen, reaching to the feet, an enveloping the person; -- in the Roman Catholic church, worn by those in holy orders when officiating at mass. It was formerly worn, at least by clerics, in daily life.

A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta- percha by the action of alcohol or ether.

A female albino. Holmes.

Shortened forms of Alcoholate.

Same as Alcoholometer, Alcoholometric.

See Alcoholometry.