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Without reality; having no solid foundation; empty; trifling; visionary. "Airy fame." Shak. Empty sound, and airy notions. Roscommon.

Improperly used also for the have; -- as in the phrases, a church with three aisles, the middle aisle.

Furnished with an aisle or aisles.

Without an aisle.

In a state of discord; out of harmony; as, he is ajar with the world.

With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward. "With one arm akimbo." Irving.

With alacrity; briskly.

ess, or promptitude; joyous activity; briskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced with alacrity to meet the enemy. I have not that alacrity of spirit, Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have. Shak.

A sudden attack; disturbance; broil. [R.] "These home alarms." Shak. Thy palace fill with insults and alarms. Pope.

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

Affected with albinism.

n, 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 the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from the absence of chlorophyll. Ame…

Affected with albinism.

Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc.

To cover or saturate with albumen; to coat or treat with an albuminous solution; as, to albuminize paper.

and resembling casein in its properties; also, a compound formed by the union of albumin with another substance.

Miraculous power of transmuting something common into something precious. Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy. Shak.

A crystallizable compound of a salt with alcohol, in which the latter plays a part analogous to that of water of crystallization. Graham.

An alcoholic tincture prepared with fresh plants. New Eng. Dict.

Saturation with alcohol; putting the animal system under the influence of alcoholic liquor.