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to be the matter with; -- used to express some uneasiness or affection, whose cause is unknown; as, what ails the man I know not what ails him. What aileth thee, Hagar Gen. xxi. 17.

Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases. "Little ailments." Landsdowne.

One of a peculiar race inhabiting Yesso, the Kooril Islands etc., in the northern part of the empire of Japan, by some supposed to have been the progenitors of the Japanese. The Ainos are stout and short, with hairy bodies.

A contraction for are not and am not; also used for is not. [Colloq. or llliterate speech]. See An't.

fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable.

Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle.

A hole to admit or discharge air; specifically, a spot in the ice not frozen over.

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

Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike. "An airy spirit." Shak.

iskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced with alacrity to meet the enemy. I have not that alacrity of spirit, Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have. Shak.

The lowest note but one in Guido Aretino's scale of music.

Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in my holy mountain. Joel ii. 1.

See Alarm. [Now Poetic]

Even though; although; notwithstanding. Chaucer. Albeit so masked, Madam, I love the truth. Tennyson.

An ancient name of England, still retained in poetry. In that nook-shotten isle of Albion. Shak.

Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the 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.

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…

ining, albumen; having the properties of, or resembling, albumen or albumin. -- Al*bu"mi*nous*ness, n.

The Mohammedan Scriptures; the Koran (now the usual form). [Spelt also Alcoran.]

the eye of Taurus; the Bull's Eye. It is the bright star in the group called the Hyades. Now when Aldebaran was mounted high Above the shiny Cassiopeia's chair. Spenser.