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Consisting of arrows. How quick they wheeled, and flying, behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy showers. Milton.

ye or the mind; look; view. "The aspect of affairs." Macaulay. The true aspect of a world lying in its rubbish. T. Burnet.

The American flying squirrel (Pteromys volucella).

Giving or implying assent. -- As*sent"ing*ly, adv.

Giving assent; of the nature of assent; complying. -- As*sent"ive*ness, n.

To unite in company; to keep company, implying intimacy; as, congenial minds are disposed to associate.

Pertaining to, implying, or containing, atheism; -- applied to things; as, atheistic doctrines, opinions, or books. Atheistical explications of natural effects. Barrow.

Reckless daring; presumptuous impudence; -- implying a contempt of law or moral restraints. With the most arrogant audacity. Joye.

Southern; lying or being in the south; as, austral land; austral ocean. Austral signs (Astron.), the last six signs of the zodiac, or those south of the equator.

Supplying its own power; -- applied to an instrument of the nature of a water-ram.

r its poisonous vapors, which ancient writers fancied were so malignant as to kill birds flying over it. It was represented by the poets to be connected with the infernal regions.

Turned away or backward. [Obs.] The tracks averse a lying notice gave, And led the searcher backward from the cave. Dryden.

To fly, or navigate the air, in an aëroplane or heavier-than- air flying machine. [Colloq.]

The art or science of flying.

A flying machine.

A heavier-than-air flying machine in which the motive power is furnished solely by the aviator.

The act of flying; flight; evaporation. [Obs.]

On the wing; flying; fluttering. Wallace.

One living in the back or outlying districts of a community. The English backsettlers of Leinster and Munster. Macaulay.

A solution used as a vehicle in applying bronze pigments. In addition to acetote, benzine, and a little pyroxylin, it contains amyl acetate, which gives it the odor of bananas.