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On horseback. Two suspicious fellows ahorseback. Smollet.

r purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try to gain; to endeavor; -- followed by at, or by an infinitive; as, to aim at distinction; to aim to do well. Aim'st thou at princes Pope.

A cavity containing air to act as a spring for equalizing the flow of a liquid in a pump or other hydraulic machine.

A faucet to allow escape of air.

A fault in a casting, produced by a bubble of air; a blowhole.

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

A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic.

of lime, or gypsum, of fine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc.

A flower bud. Gray.

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

boiler for showing when the pressure of steam is too high, or the water in the boiler too low. -- Alarm post, a place to which troops are to repair in case of an alarm.

borhood; an alarmed modesty. The white pavilions rose and fell On the alarmed air. Longfellow.

tion expressive of sorrow, pity, or apprehension of evil; -- in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas the day, like alack a day, or alas the white.

ecause in the early church those who had been baptized on Easter eve laid aside on the following Saturday their white albs which had been put on after baptism.

e color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from the absence of chlorophyll. Amer. Cyc.

A genus of fleshy Alcyonaria, its polyps somewhat resembling flowers with eight fringed rays. The term was also formerly used for certain species of sponges.

the cultivated forms of Andropogon Halepensis (syn. Sorghum Halepense). See Andropogon, below.

Brisk; nimble; moving with celerity. An alert young fellow. Addison.

syllables. The needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Pope.

Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion. An alien sound of melancholy. Wordsworth. Alien enemy (Law), one who owes allegiance to a government at war with ours. Abbott.