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An exposure to air, or to a fire, for warming, drying, etc.; as, the airing of linen, or of a room.

A path through the air made easy for aërial navigation by steady winds.

Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime.

Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aërial; as, an airy flight. "The airy region." Milton.

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.

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

A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic.

A compact variety or sulphate of lime, or gypsum, of fine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc.

Of, pertaining to, or like, alabaster; as alabastrine limbs.

Brisk; joyously active; lively. 'T were well if we were a little more alacrious. Hammond.

pprehension of evil; -- in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas the day, like alack a day, or alas the white.

Winged; having wings, or side appendages like wings.

A vestment 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.

Whiteness. Specifically: (Astron.) The ratio which the light reflected from an unpolished surface bears to the total light falling upon that surface.

A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc.

any 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.

An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of albumen in a liquid.

A vessel of porous earthenware, used for cooling liquids by evaporation from the exterior surface.

led also ethyl alcohol); the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented or distilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation.…

Of or pertaining to alcohol, or partaking of its qualities; derived from, or caused by, alcohol; containing alcohol; as, alcoholic mixtures; alcoholic gastritis; alcoholic odor.