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So tight as to be impermeable to air; as, an air-tight cylinder.

Any device, as a balloon, aëroplane, etc., for floating in, or flying through, the air.

One who exposes to the air.

In an airy manner; lightly; gaily; jauntily; fippantly.

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

A walk or a ride in the open air; a short excursion for health's sake.

Not open to a free current of air; wanting fresh air, or communication with the open air.

Resembling air.

A thoughtless, gay person. [Obs.] "Slight airlings." B. Jonson.

A man who ascends or flies in an aircraft; a flying machine pilot.

Art, skill, or ability in the practice of aërial navigation.

A grayish green antiseptic powder, consisting of a basic iodide and gallate of bismuth, sometimes used in place of iodoform. [A Trademark]

A hollow cylinder to contain air. It is closed above and open below, and has its open end plunged into water.

Affected with aërial sickness. -- Air"sick`ness, n.

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

A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.

Consisting of air; as, an airy substance; the airy parts of bodies.

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

Furnished with an aisle or aisles.

Without an aisle.