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A jacket having air-tight cells, or cavities which can be filled with air, to render persons buoyant in swimming.

Lightness of spirits; gayety; levity; as, the airiness of young persons.

A thoughtless, gay person. [Obs.] "Slight airlings." B. Jonson.

Of the same kin; related by blood; -- used of persons; as, the two families are near akin.

A mechanical contrivance for awaking persons from sleep, or rousing their attention; an alarum. Alarm bell, a bell that gives notice on danger. -- Alarm clock or watch, a clock or watch which can be so set as to ring or strike loudly at a prearranged hour, to wake from sleep, or excite attention. -- Alarm gauge, a co…

A vestment of white linen, reaching to the feet, an enveloping the person; -- in the Roman Catholic church, worn by those in holy orders when officiating at mass. It was formerly worn, at least by clerics, in daily life.

ough; although; notwithstanding. Chaucer. Albeit so masked, Madam, I love the truth. Tennyson.

A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes is deficient or in a morbid state. An albino has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of…

An oriental shrub (Lawsonia inermis) from which henna is obtained.

A person given to the use of alcoholic liquors.

The act of reducing a substance to a fine or impalpable powder. [Obs.] Johnson.

To reduce to a fine powder. [Obs.] Johnson.

trees, esp. of Bowdichia virgilioides of Brazil, used as a remedy for consumption; of Byrsonima crassifolia, used in tanning; of Alchornea latifolia, used medicinally; or of Quercus ilex, the cork tree.

A senior or superior; a person of rank or dignity. [Obs.]

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

al in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk. "At wakes and ales." B. Jonson."On ember eves and holy ales." Shak.

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

e of aleurone, used as a substitute for ordinary flour in preparing bread for diabetic persons.

ind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables. The needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Pope.

An antidote against poison or infection; a counterpoison.