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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.

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

A frame on which clothes are aired or dried.

circuit; specif., in a dynamo or motor, the space between the field-magnet poles and the armature; clearance.

Art, skill, or ability in the practice of aërial navigation.

One of the spaces in different parts. of the bodies of birds, which are filled with air and connected with the air passages of the lungs; an air cell.

essel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheæ, of plants spiral vessels.

With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward. "With one arm akimbo." Irving.

Of the same kin; related by blood; -- used of persons; as, the two families are near akin.

The Arabic definite article answering to the English the; as, Alkoran, the Koran or the Book; alchemy, the chemistry.

An exclamation expressive of sorrow. [Archaic. or Poet.] Shak.

Inability to utter articulate sounds, due either to paralysis of the larynx or to that form of aphasia, called motor, or ataxis, aphasia, due to loss of control of the muscles of speech.

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

A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak.

Aroused to vigilance; excited by fear of approaching danger; agitated; disturbed; as, an alarmed neighborhood; an alarmed modesty. The white pavilions rose and fell On the alarmed air. Longfellow.

Lately; of late. [Archaic] There hath been alate such tales spread abroad. Latimer.

A web-footed bird, of the genus Diomedea, of which there are several species. They are the 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 kind of plastic cement, or artificial stone, consisting chiefly of magnesia and silica; -- called also albolite.

of the eye, or of an egg; albuminous; -- a term applied to textures, humors, etc., which are perfectly white.