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A bannerlike stream of snow blown into the air from a mountain peak, often having a pinkish color and extending horizontally for several miles across the sky.

To inhale air through the nose with violence or with noise, as do dogs and horses. Dryden.

The act of snuffing; a sound made by the air passing through the nose when obstructed. This dread sovereign, Breath, in its passage, gave a snort or snuffle. Coleridge.

of short, convulsive inspirations, the glottis being suddenly closed so that little or no air enters into the lungs.

ale; not irritating to the tissues; as, a soft liniment; soft wines. "The soft, delicious air." Milton.

heat is used to produce motion, as in evaporating water for a steam engine, or expanding air for an air engine. -- Solar flowers (Bot.), flowers which open and shut daily at certain hours. -- Solar lamp, an argand lamp. -- Solar microscope, a microscope consisting essentially, first, of a mirror for reflecting a be…

A tune, air, strain, or a whole piece, played by a single person on an instrument, or sung by a single voice.

The air sung by any of the principal characters in an opera on entering.

Filled with air by beating, and baked; as, an omelette soufflé.

The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.

To cause to become sour; to cause to turn from sweet to sour; as, exposure to the air sours many substances. So the sun's heat, with different powers, Ripens the grape, the liquor sours. Swift.

; a rise; an ascent. [Obs.] Therefore right as an hawk upon a sours Up springeth into the air, right so prayers . . . Maken their sours to Goddes ears two. Chaucer.

give up; to part with. Where angry Jove did never spare One breath of kind and temperate air. Roscommon. I could have better spared a better man. Shak. To spare one's self. (a) To act with reserve. [Obs.] Her thought that a lady should her spare. Chaucer.

The space filled with air or other dielectric between high potential terminals (as of an electrostatic machine, induction coil, or condenser), through which the discharge passes; the air gap of a jump spark.

Like a spark; airy; gay. W. Walsh.

ought by magic; enchantment. Like those Peri isles of light That hang by spellwork in the air. Moore.

h; as, energy spends in the using of it. The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air. Bacon.

To fill or impregnate with the odor of spices. In the spiced Indian air, by night. Shak.

driven into the ground as a support for some superstructure; a pile. Spile hole, a small air hole in a cask; a vent.

eads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin goat's hair; to produce by drawing out and twisting a fibrous material. All the yarn she [Penelope] spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill Ithaca full of moths. Shak.