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A grayish green antiseptic powder, consisting of a basic iodide and gallate of bismuth, sometimes used in place of iodoform. [A Trademark]

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

Affected with aërial sickness. -- Air"sick`ness, n.

Toward the air; upward. [R.] Keats.

A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.

Consisting of air; as, an airy substance; the airy parts of bodies.

That which is done or is to be done; matter; concern; as, a difficult affair to manage; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public; -- often in the plural. "At the head of affairs." Junius. "A talent for affairs." Prescott.

To impair or become impaired; to injure. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To impair; to grow worse. [Obs.]

A chair with arms to support the elbows or forearms. Tennyson.

Stairs in the back part of a house, as distinguished from the front stairs; hence, a private or indirect way.

Private; indirect; secret; intriguing; as if finding access by the back stairs. A backstairs influence. Burke. Female caprice and backstairs influence. Trevelyan.

The name of two Mohammedan festivals, of which one is held at the close of the fast called Ramadan, and the other seventy days after the fast.

A child. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Has he not well provided for the bairn ! Beau. & Fl.

A chair with adjustable back, for the sick, to support them while sitting up in bed.

See Coma Berenices, under Coma.

Gentle; courteous; complaisant; yielding. [Obs.]

by the first French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. See Vendemiaire.

A traveling tinker; also a tramp or sturdy beggar. [Prov. Eng.]

Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument. Now here let us place the gray stone of her cairn. Campbell.