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

Although; if. [Obs.] See All, conj.

Although; albeit. [Obs.] Albe Clarissa were their chiefest founderess. Spenser.

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

re commonly, inability, due to brain disease, to understand written or printed symbols although they can be seen, as in case of word blindness.

ted in the record by unconformities. Algonkian rocks are both sedimentary and igneous. Although fossils are rare, life certainly existed in this period. -- n.

hip. [R.] "It the son alien lands." Sir M. Hale. The prince was totally aliened from all thoughts of . . . the marriage. Clarendon.

Although; albeit. [Obs.] All they were wondrous loth. Spenser.

That which is alleged, asserted, or declared; positive assertion; formal averment I thought their allegation but reasonable. Steele.

The act alluring; temptation; enticement. Though Adam by his wife's allurement fell. Milton.

The act of altering or making different. Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. Hooker.

Although. [Reformed spelling] Alt"horn`, n. Etym: [Alt + horn.] (Mus.)

l time; continually; as, God is always the same. Even in Heaven his [Mammon's] looks and thoughts. Milton.

Shak. An instant emergency, granting no possibility for revision, or opening for amended thought. De Quincey. We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman. Sir W. Scott. To amend a bill, to make some change in the details or provisions of a bill or measure while on its passage, professedl…

To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder. [Obs.] Camillus set upon the Gauls when they were amused in receiving their gold. Holland. Being amused with grief, fear, and fright, he could not find the house. Fuller.

Deep thought; muse. [Obs.] Here I . . . fell into a strong and deep amusement, revolving in my mind, with great perplexity, the amazing change of our affairs. Fleetwood.

en in the same group; as, the gill of a fish is the analogue of a lung in a quadruped, although the two are not of like structural relations.

Experienced; versed. [Obs.] Though [he] was the youngest brother, yet he was the most ancient in the business of the realm. Berners.

If; though. See An, conj. [Obs.] Chaucer. As they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs. Bacon. And so forth, and others; and the rest; and similar things; and other things or ingredients. The abbreviation, etc. (et cetera), or &c., is usually read and so forth.

A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment. Though but an angle reached him of the stone. Dryden.