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A path through the air made easy for aërial navigation by steady winds.

The process of becoming white, or developing white patches, or streaks.

The state or condition of being an albino: abinoism; leucopathy.

Having susceptibility; easily impressed; having lively feelings, as opposed to apathy; sensitive. Tremblingly alive to nature's laws. Falconer.

Without sympathy; unfavorably. To make the Bible as from the hand of God, and then to look at it aloof and with caution, is the worst of all impieties. I. Taylor.

, King of Castile (1252- 1284). Alphonsine tables, astronomical tables prepared under the patronage of Alphonso the Wise. Whewell.

ly to the citizens of the United States. The name American must always exalt the pride of patriotism. Washington.

Forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ. Quian.

To speak largely or copiously; to be diffuse in argument or description; to dilate; to expatiate; -- often with on or upon. Watts. He must often enlarge and amplify upon the subject he handles. South.

word in one language corresponding with one in another; an analogous term; as, the Latin "pater" is the analogue of the English "father."

An aged man; a patriarch. Hence: A governor; a ruler; a person of influence. The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof. Isa. iii. 14.

harps." Thomson."Angelical actions." Hooker. The union of womanly tenderness and angelic patience. Macaulay. Angelic Hymn, a very ancient hymn of the Christian Church; -- so called from its beginning with the song of the heavenly host recorded in Luke ii. 14. Eadie.

The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.

Anticipation. [Obs.] Donne.

ther dimensions of human beings, especially at different ages, or in different races, occupations, etc. Dunglison.

Anticipating; expectant; -- with of. Wakening guilt, anticipant of hell. Southey.

A contradiction or incompatibility of thought or language; -- in the Kantian philosophy, such a contradiction as arises from the attempt to apply to the ideas of the reason, relations or attributes which are appropriate only to the facts or the concepts of experience.

of rent; esp. one of those who in 1840-47 resisted the collection of rents claimed by the patroons from the settlers on certain manorial lands in the State of New York. -- An`ti*rent"ism, n.

of producing immunity from certain diseases, or of counteracting the poisonous effects of pathogenic bacteria.

That of which the type pattern or representation; that which is represented by the type or symbol.