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Agriculture. [Obs.] Bailey.

affection, whose cause is unknown; as, what ails the man I know not what ails him. What aileth thee, Hagar Gen. xxi. 17.

To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a fox, or at a target.

Symbolically: Something unsubstantial, light, or volatile. "Charm ache with air." Shak. He was still all air and fire. Macaulay . [Air and fire being the finer and quicker elements as opposed to earth and water.]

ake from sleep, or excite attention. -- Alarm gauge, a contrivance attached to a steam boiler for showing when the pressure of steam is too high, or the water in the boiler too low. -- Alarm post, a place to which troops are to repair in case of an alarm.

ima crassifolia, used in tanning; of Alchornea latifolia, used medicinally; or of Quercus ilex, the cork tree.

A colorless, mobile, and very volatile liquid obtained from alcohol by certain of oxidation.

) A European shrub (Rhamnus frangula); Alder buckthorn. (b) An American species of holly (Ilex verticillata), bearing red berries.

A house where ale is retailed; hence, a tippling house. Macaulay.

Serving to drive off fever; antifebrile. -- n.

Cold; chilly. Bailey. Algid cholera (Med.), Asiatic cholera.

another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not posses the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage.

The ground-plan of a railway or other road, in distinction from the grades or profile.

vity and motion of many living beings; swarming; thronged. The Boyne, for a quarter of a mile, was alive with muskets and green boughs. Macaulay.

lue. Fixed alkalies, potash and soda. -- Vegetable alkalies. Same as Alkaloids. -- Volatile alkali, ammonia, so called in distinction from the fixed alkalies.

A sterile plain, containing an excess of alkali, at the bottom of an undrained basin in an arid region; a playa.

the circumstances to be considered. "This example is on all fours with the other." "No simile can go on all fours." Macaulay.

To salute; to greet. [Poet.] Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who all-hailed me "Thane of Cawdor." Shak.

The division of Vertebrata in which the embryo develops an allantois. It includes reptiles, birds, and mammals.

A membranous appendage of the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles, -- in mammals serving to connect the fetus with the parent; the urinary vesicle.