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Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. "Fair and aboveboard." Burke.

g from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence. The abstinence from a present pleasure that offers itself is a pain, nay, oftentimes, a very great one. Locke.…

Open to the influence of; -- with to. "Minds accessible to reason." Macaulay.

To cohabit. [Obs.] We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries. Milton.

That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.

- distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.

The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.

The mouth or anterior opening of a coelenterate animal.

Propensity to form and maintain attachments to persons, and to promote social intercourse.

An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel.

tic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters. [Written also adapter.]

ly intensifying speech. It consists of a phonograph diaphragm so arranged that its action opens and closes valves, producing synchronous air blasts sufficient to operate a larger diaphragm with greater amplitude of vibration.

titude, etc. ; the malevolent affections, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency. Affection is applicable to an unpleasant as well as a pleasant state of the mind, when impressed by any object or quality. Cogan.

The state or quality of being airy; openness or exposure to the air; as, the airiness of a country seat.

A walk or a ride in the open air; a short excursion for health's sake.

Not open to a free current of air; wanting fresh air, or communication with the open air.

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

Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy; as, an airy situation.

Also (perhaps from confusion with alley), a passage into which the pews of a church open.

Slightly turned or opened; as, the door was standing ajar.