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

Related to, or of the nature of, aërobies; as, aërobiotic plants, which live only when supplied with free oxygen.

The science which treats of the properties of the air, and of the part it plays in nature. Craig.

Of the nature of, or like, copper; brassy. [R.]

Of the nature or color of verdigris, or the rust of copper.

The doctrine of æsthetics; æsthetic principles; devotion to the beautiful in nature and art. Lowell.

The theory or philosophy of taste; the science of the beautiful in nature and art; esp. that which treats of the expression and embodiment of beauty by art.

Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature.

Of the nature of affinity. -- Af*fin"i*ta*tive*ly, adv.

According to; in accordance with; in conformity with the nature of; as, he acted after his kind. He shall not judge after the sight of his eyes. Isa. xi. 3. They that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh. Rom. viii. 5.

Of the nature of agate, or containing agate.

t; concordant; adapted; -- followed by to, rarely by with. That which is agreeable to the nature of one thing, is many times contrary to the nature of another. L'Estrange.

; suitableness or conformity; consistency. The agreeableness of virtuous actions to human nature. Pearce.

ion or reproduction of the effect of the atmospheric medium through which every object in nature is viewed. New Am. Cyc.

Having the light and aërial tints true to nature. Elmes.

Allied by nature; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind. "A joy akin to rapture." Cowper. The literary character of the work is akin to its moral character. Jeffrey.

Of the nature of, or resembling, the white of the eye, or of an egg; albuminous; -- a term applied to textures, humors, etc., which are perfectly white.

Of the nature of an albuminoid.

racted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation.

The science which treats of the nature of truth and evidence. Sir W. Hamilton.