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Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls.

Eternal; everlasting. "Æonian hills." Tennyson.

Having the form or nature of air, or of an elastic fluid; gaseous. Hence fig.: Unreal.

The science of measuring the air, including the doctrine of its pressure, elasticity, rarefaction, and condensation; pneumatics.

diaphragm so arranged that its action opens and closes valves, producing synchronous air blasts sufficient to operate a larger diaphragm with greater amplitude of vibration.

The science that treats of the equilibrium of elastic fluids, or that of bodies sustained in them. Hence it includes aëronautics.

A breath or blast of wind.

Before; in front of; farther forward than; as, afore the windlass. Afore the mast, among the common sailors; -- a phrase used to distinguish the ship's crew from the officers.

The last milk drawn in milking; strokings. [Obs.] Grose.

cean to its arrival at a given place. -- Moon's age, the time that has elapsed since the last preceding conjunction of the sun and moon.

Applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; as, aggry beads are found in Ashantee and Fantee in Africa.

The last struggle of life; death struggle.

A hook or clasp. The feather of an ostrich, fastened in her turban by an agraffe set with brilliants. Sir W. Scott.

pertaining to agriculture; connected with, or engaged in, tillage; as, the agricultural class; agricultural implements, wages, etc. -- Ag`ri*cul"tur*al*ly, adv. Agricultural ant (Zoöl.), a species of ant which gathers and stores seeds of grasses, for food. The remarkable species (Myrmica barbata) found in Texas clear…

With the sails furled, and the helm lashed alee; -- applied to ships in a storm. See Hull, n.

An instrument for boring holes, used in blasting.

e earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable.

A drill driven by the elastic pressure of condensed air; a pneumatic drill. Knight.

A kind of gun in which the elastic force of condensed air is used to discharge the ball. The air is powerfully compressed into a reservoir attached to the gun, by a condensing pump, and is controlled by a valve actuated by the trigger.

Of or pertaining to wings; also, wing-shaped. The alary system of insects. Wollaston.