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Any device, as a balloon, aëroplane, etc., for floating in, or flying through, the air.

Art, skill, or ability in the practice of aërial navigation.

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.

ep 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.

diffusible substance formed from albumin by the action of natural or artificial gastric juice. See Peptone.

The jurisdiction or office of an alcalde; also, the building or chamber in which he conducts the business of his office.

One who practices alchemy. You are alchemist; make gold. Shak.

in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation.

One of a board or body of municipal officers next in order to the mayor and having a legislative function. They may, in some cases, individually exercise some magisterial and administrative functions.

The office of an alderman.

The office or rank of an alderman. [R.] B. Jonson.

The condition, position, or office of an alderman. Fabyan.

of the classics) which proceeded from the press of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been applied to certain elegant editions of English works.

A beverage, formerly made by boiling ale with spice, sugar, and sops of bread. Their aleberries, caudles, possets. Beau. & Fl.

Orig., an officer appointed to look to the goodness of ale and beer; also, one of the officers chosen by the liverymen of London to inspect the measures used in public houses. But the office is a sinecure. [Also called aletaster.] [Eng.]

An inferior officer of justice in Spain; a warrant officer; a constable. Prescott.

Applied to those days when the holy sacrifice is not offered. Shipley.

oted all the same, whether we recognize them or not." J. C. Shairp. "But Rugby is a very nice place all the same." T. Arnold. -- See also under All, n.

The first day of April, a day on which sportive impositions are practiced. The first of April, some do say, Is set apart for All Fools' Day. Poor Robin's Almanack (1760).

To allure; to entice. [Obs.]