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

Toward the air; upward. [R.] Keats.

To the death; mortally.

To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear. Alarmed by rumors of military preparation. Macaulay.

are the largest of sea birds, capable of long- continued flight, and are often seen at great distances from the land. They are found chiefly in the southern hemisphere.

Dung of dogs or hyenas, which becomes white by exposure to air. It is used in dressing leather, and was formerly used in medicine.

seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc.

To cover or saturate with albumen; to coat or treat with an albuminous solution; as, to albuminize paper.

nces, both fluid and solid, also in many plants. It is soluble in water is coagulated by heat ad by certain chemical reagents. Acid albumin, a modification of albumin produced by the action of dilute acids. It is not coagulated by heat. -- Alkali albumin, albumin as modified by the action of alkaline substances; -- ca…

A small ornamental building with seats, or an arched seat, in a pleasure ground; a garden bower. Cowper.

ers of the alphabet, the letters being put together in the order in which the grains were eaten. Amer. Cyc.

On or toward the lee, or the side away from the wind; the opposite of aweather. The helm of a ship is alee when pressed close to the lee side. Hard alee, or Luff alee, an order to put the helm to the lee side.

ly given place to the retort and worm still. Used also metaphorically. The alembic of a great poet's imagination. Brimley.

An alarm from a real or threatened attack; a sudden attack; also, a bugle sound to give warning. "We have had an alert." Farrow. On the alert, on the lookout or watch against attack or danger; ready to act.

The science which treats of the nature of truth and evidence. Sir W. Hamilton.

Having the nature of aleurone. D. C. Eaton.

husks of the legumes of a South American tree (Inga Marthæ). It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye.

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.

The study or treatment of diseases of the mind.

One who treats diseases of the mind. Ed. Rev.