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e; apparent character; semblance; manner; style. It was communicated with the air of a secret. Pope.

riginates in the same way as the lungs of air-breathing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or esophagus.

A direction for the performer to return and recommence from the sign

The lowest note but one in Guido Aretino's scale of music.

An ancient name of England, still retained in poetry. In that nook-shotten isle of Albion. Shak.

Pertaining to, or like, an alderman. "An aldermanly discretion." Swift.

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

ly used in distillation, usually made of glass or metal. It has mostly given place to the retort and worm still. Used also metaphorically. The alembic of a great poet's imagination. Brimley.

trioxide of antimony. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic, purgative, and diaphoretic.

A writing or signature made by some person other than any of the parties thereto; -- opposed to autograph.

ction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.

n accession of land gradually washed to the shore or bank by the flowing of water. See Accretion.

daily; rocks or minerals alter by exposure. "The law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not." Dan. vi. 8.

A beehive, or something resembling a beehive. Barret.

rom, in, or pertaining to, the belly or the intestines; as, alvine discharges; alvine concretions.

ound floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often variegated like marble. The floating masses ar…

The quality of being ambitious; ambition; pretentiousness.

wounded as soon as possible. Often used adjectively; as, an ambulance wagon; ambulance stretcher; ambulance corps.

Retention or suppression of the menstrual discharge.

nish by a pecuniary penalty, the amount of which is not fixed by law, but left to the discretion of the court; as, the amerced the criminal in the sum on the hundred dollars.