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A handsome butterfly (Pyrameis Atalanta) of Europe and America. The larva feeds on nettles. Admiral shell (Zoöl.), the popular name of an ornamental cone shell (Conus admiralis). Lord High Admiral, a great officer of state, who (when this rare dignity is conferred) is at the head of the naval administration of Great Br…

An apparatus consisting chiefly of a closed vessel (as a globe or cylinder) with one or more projecting bent tubes, through which steam is made to pass from the vessel, causing it to revolve. [Written also eolipile.]

A form of hydro-aëroplane; a flying boat.

A ground or field, esp. one equipped with housing and other facilities, used for flying purposes. -- A`ër*o*drom"ic (#), a.

A power-driven, heavier-than-air flying machine.

A flying machine, or a small plane for experiments on flying, which floats in the air only when propelled through it.

A form of hydro-aëroplane; a flying boat.

(Aëronautics) A small plane or surface capable of being manipulated by the pilot of a flying machine to preserve or destroy lateral balance; a hinged wing tip; a lateral stabilizing or balancing plane.

Any device, as a balloon, aëroplane, etc., for floating in, or flying through, the air.

A man who ascends or flies in an aircraft; a flying machine pilot.

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.

An epithet applied to editions (chiefly of the classics) which proceeded from the press of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been applied to certain elegant editions of English works.…

To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof.

The instinct or faculty of appetite for food. [Chiefly in Phrenol.]

pense. Evelyn. Those large bladders . . . conduce much to the alleviating of the body [of flying birds]. Ray.

in the following lines: - Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness. Milton. Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. Tennyson.

Consisting chiefly of aloes; of the nature of aloes.

Flying high. [Obs.] Blount.

A white fibrous mineral frequently found on the walls of mines and quarries, chiefly hydrous sulphate of alumina; -- also called feather alum, and hair salt.