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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.

Improperly used also for the have; -- as in the phrases, a church with three aisles, the middle aisle.

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

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.

urbance; broil. [R.] "These home alarms." Shak. Thy palace fill with insults and alarms. Pope.

The first Sunday after Easter Sunday, properly Albless Sunday, because in the early church those who had been baptized on Easter eve laid aside on the following Saturday their white albs which had been put on after baptism.

ubstance produced by the action of an alkali upon albumin, and resembling casein in its properties; also, a compound formed by the union of albumin with another substance.

Pertaining to, or containing, albumen; having the properties of, or resembling, albumen or albumin. -- Al*bu"mi*nous*ness, n.

The bleak, a small European fish having scales of a peculiarly silvery color which are used in making artificial pearls.

A genus of perching birds, including the European kingfisher (Alcedo ispida). See Halcyon.

A recessed portion of a room, or a small room opening into a larger one; especially, a recess to contain a bed; a lateral recess in a library.

in the group called the Hyades. Now when Aldebaran was mounted high Above the shiny Cassiopeia's chair. Spenser.

n the U. S. the species of alder are usually shrubs or small trees. Black alder. (a) A European shrub (Rhamnus frangula); Alder buckthorn. (b) An American species of holly (Ilex verticillata), bearing red berries.

An instrument for determining the expansive properties, or quality, of gluten in flour. Knight.

less Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Pope.

In the open-air. Smollett.