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A genus of mosquitoes which are secondary hosts of the malaria parasites, and whose bite is the usual, if not the only, means of infecting human beings with malaria. Several species are found in the United States. They may be distinguished from the ordinary mosquitoes of the genus Culex by the long slender palpi, nearl…

A chronic lung disease, common among coal miners, due to the inhalation of coal dust; -- called also collier's lung and miner's phthisis.

A balancing; equipoise. [R.] De Quincey.

Balanced.

Apollo Belvedere, a celebrated statue of Apollo in the Belvedere gallery of the Vatican palace at Rome, esteemed of the noblest representations of the human frame.

, the sight appalled the stoutest heart. The house of peers was somewhat appalled at this alarum. Clarendon.

Appealable.

have transmitted the benefit to us, it is but reasonable we should suffer the appendant calamity. Jer. Taylor.

animal selection or appetency the absorb such part of the fluid as is agreeable to their palate. E. Darwin.

A genus of New Zealand birds about the size of a hen, with only short rudiments of wings, armed with a claw and without a tail; the kiwi. It is allied to the gigantic extinct moas of the same country. Five species are known.

antic cephalopods, allied to the squids, found esp. in the North Atlantic and about New Zealand.

us Persian Argas, also called Miana bug, is A. Persicus; that of Central America, called talaje by the natives, is A. Talaje.

A false aril; an aril originating from the micropyle instead of from the funicle or chalaza of the ovule. The mace of the nutmeg is an arillode.

at which is behind in payment, or which remains unpaid, though due; esp. a remainder, or balance which remains due when some part has been paid; arrearage; -- commonly used in the plural, as, arrears of rent, wages, or taxes. Locke. For much I dread due payment by the Greeks Of yesterday's arrear. Cowper. I have a larg…

which results from interruption of respiration, as in suffocation or drowning, or the inhalation of irrespirable gases.

e vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary. The assonance is peculiar to the Spaniard. Hallam.

the coal formations of Europe and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites.

Treatment of disease by vapors or gases, as by inhalation.

the vouchers, examine the parties and witnesses, allow or reject charges, and state the balance.

A rude balance for weighing, and a kind of weight, formerly used in England. Halliwell.