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Help; succor; assistance; relief. An unconstitutional mode of obtaining aid. Hallam.

cold, moisture, etc., or as affecting the sensations; as, a smoky air, a damp air, the morning air, etc.

A cavity in the cellular tissue of plants, containing air only.

A cavity containing air to act as a spring for equalizing the flow of a liquid in a pump or other hydraulic machine.

A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheæ, of plants spiral vessels.

led the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall.

mmi Copticum, syn. Carum Ajowan, used both as a medicine and as a condiment. An oil containing thymol is extracted from it. Called also Javanee seed, Javanese seed, and ajava.

Pertaining to akinesia.

Of, pertaining to, or like, alabaster; as alabastrine limbs.

Pertaining to, or having, wings.

intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in my holy mountain. Joel ii. 1.

Of or pertaining to wings; also, wing-shaped. The alary system of insects. Wollaston.

Of or pertaining to Albania, a province of Turkey. -- n.

Of or pertaining to the Albigenses.

An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of albumen in a liquid.

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

Of or pertaining to alburnum; of the alburnum; as, alburnous substances.

Pertaining to Alcæus, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000 b. c. -- n. A kind of verse, so called from Alcæus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls.

or intoxicating element of fermented or distilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation.

Of or pertaining to alcohol, or partaking of its qualities; derived from, or caused by, alcohol; containing alcohol; as, alcoholic mixtures; alcoholic gastritis; alcoholic odor.