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An instrument for boring holes, used in blasting.

ollowed by at, or by an infinitive; as, to aim at distinction; to aim to do well. Aim'st thou at princes Pope.

That which surrounds and influences. The keen, the wholesome air of poverty. Wordsworth.

A sac or bladder full of air in an animal or plant; also an air hole in a casting.

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

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

An islet, or little isle, in a river or lake; an eyot. The ait where the osiers grew. R. Hodges (1649). Among green aits and meadows. Dickens.

A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made. Fosbroke.

According to the fashion or prevailing mode. "Alamode beef shops." Macaulay.

ng danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in my holy mountain. Joel ii. 1.

stment of white linen, reaching to the feet, an enveloping the person; -- in the Roman Catholic church, worn by those in holy orders when officiating at mass. It was formerly worn, at least by clerics, in daily life.

(Orcynus thynnus), common in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, is called in New England the horse mackerel; the tunny. [Written also albacore.]

A female albino. Holmes.

y shrubs or small trees. Black alder. (a) A European shrub (Rhamnus frangula); Alder buckthorn. (b) An American species of holly (Ilex verticillata), bearing red berries.

iquor made from an infusion of malt by fermentation and the addition of a bitter, usually hops.

an officer appointed to look to the goodness of ale and beer; also, one of the officers chosen by the liverymen of London to inspect the measures used in public houses. But the office is a sinecure. [Also called aletaster.] [Eng.]

A house where ale is retailed; hence, a tippling house. Macaulay.

cies of the genus Smyrnium, formerly cultivated and used as celery now is; -- called also horse parsely.

The Honey mesquite (Prosopis juliflora), a small tree found from California to Buenos Ayres; also, its sweet, pulpy pods. A valuable gum, resembling gum arabic, is collected from the tree in Texas and Mexico.

strange; to wean; -- with from. The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. Macaulay. The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present. I. Taylor.