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The act or preparation of charging with carbonic acid gas or with oxygen.

Light as air; ethereal. Aërial acid, carbonic acid. [Obs.] Ure. -- Aërial perspective. See Perspective.

An aëroplane or airship designed to carry passengers.

To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance. Careless she is with artful care, Affecting to seem unaffected. Congreve. Thou dost affect my manners. Shak.

Lovingly; with tender care. [Obs.] Shak.

Proceeding from affection; indicating love; tender; as, the affectionate care of a parent; affectionate countenance, message, language.

A written or printed notice to be posted, as on a wall; a poster; a placard.

bles from hence into Spain. Wotton. There is an unusual affluence of strangers this year. Carlyle.

To frighten; to scare; to frighten away. That voice doth us affray. Shak.

he act of hiring, or the contract for the use of, a vessel, or some part of it, to convey cargo.

Subsequent to and in consequence of; as, after what you have said, I shall be careful.

An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.

A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite.

t.) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.

Gregarious; social. [R.] Carlyle.

Formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.

r food. The remarkable species (Myrmica barbata) found in Texas clears circular areas and carefully cultivates its favorite grain, known as ant rice.

An officer selected by a general to carry orders, also to assist or represent him in correspondence and in directing movements.

A group of the Carnivora, which includes the cats, civets, and hyenas.

Carriage; attitude; action; movement; as, the head of that portrait has a good air. Fairholt.