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Having the qualities of an ague; somewhat cold or shivering; chilly; shaky. Her aguish love now glows and burns. Granville.

A small square shield, formerly worn on the shoulders of knights, -- being the prototype of the modern epaulet. Fairholt.

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

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

The quality of being à la mode; conformity to the mode or fashion; fashionableness. [R.] Southey.

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

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.

Any of numerous neuropterous insects of the genus Sialis or allied genera. They have aquatic larvæ, which are used for bait.

The quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.

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

That branch of mathematics which treats of the relations and properties of quantity by means of letters and other symbols. It is applicable to those relations that are true of every kind of magnitude.

; as, algebraic characters; algebraical writings. Algebraic curve, a curve such that the equation which expresses the relation between the coördinates of its points involves only the ordinary operations of algebra; -- opposed to a transcendental curve.

Quality of being alible.

The portion of a graduated instrument, as a quadrant or astrolabe, carrying the sights or telescope, and showing the degrees cut off on the arc of the instrument Whewell.

line of adjustment; esp., an imaginary line to regulate the formation of troops or of a squadron.

In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally; as, we are all alike concerne.

Supplying food; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap.

So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne.

The quality of being alimentary; nourishing quality. [R.]