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The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.

To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances. Paley.

Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances.

An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.

Help; succor; assistance; relief. An unconstitutional mode of obtaining aid. Hallam.

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

A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta- percha by the action of alcohol or ether.

he 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.

A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes is deficient or in a morbid state. An albino has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of…

A thick, viscous nitrogenous substance, which is the chief and characteristic constituent of white of eggs and of the serum of blood, and is found in other animal substances, 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 modifica…

A substance produced by the action of an alkali upon albumin, and resembling casein in its properties; also, a compound formed by the union of albumin with another substance.

The substance of the cells which inclose the white of birds' eggs.

A diffusible substance formed from albumin by the action of natural or artificial gastric juice. See Peptone.

Of or pertaining to alburnum; of the alburnum; as, alburnous substances.

The act of reducing a substance to a fine or impalpable powder. [Obs.] Johnson.

An albuminoid substance which occurs in minute grains ("protein granules") in maturing seeds and tubers; -- supposed to be a modification of protoplasm.

A nitrogenous substance resembling gelatin, obtained from certain algæ.

That which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: sustenance; means of support. Aliments of theiBacon.

liment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances. Alimentary canal, the entire channel, extending from the mouth to the anus, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the useless parts ejected.

A tendency to become alkaline; or the state of a substance in which alkaline properties begin to be developed, or to predominant. Ure.