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Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to am equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens. His Grace's landed possessions are irresistibly inviting to an agrarian experiment. Burke.…

A pipe for the passage of air; esp. a ventilating pipe.

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

A picture printed from a kind of gelatine plate produced by means of a photographic negative.

Of or relating to alchemy.

Relating to or practicing alchemy. Metaphysical and alchemistical legislators. Burke.

Relating to the alcoholometer or alcoholometry. The alcoholometrical strength of spirituous liquors. Ure.

Relating to, becoming to, or like, an alderman; characteristic of an alderman.

A nitrogenous substance resembling gelatin, obtained from certain algæ.

The art of calculating by nine figures and zero.

Relating to expansions of the nasal septum.

Pertaining to or forming the wing of the sphenoid; relating to a bone in the base of the skull, which in the adult is often consolidated with the sphenoid; as, alisphenoid bone; alisphenoid canal.

A rule relating to the solution of questions concerning the compounding or mixing of different ingredients, or ingredients of different qualities or values.

sens the value or detracts from; as, no happiness is without alloy. "Pure English without Latin alloy." F. Harrison.

Pertaining to, contained in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.

A sensitized paper for obtaining positives by artificial light. It is coated with gelatin containing silver bromide and chloride. [Eng.]

Of or relating to Alphonso X., the Wise, King of Castile (1252- 1284). Alphonsine tables, astronomical tables prepared under the patronage of Alphonso the Wise. Whewell.

A prefix meaning about, around; -- used in words derived from the Latin.

Of or relating to, or produced by, love. "Amorous delight." Milton. "Amorous airs." Waller.

A unit, employed in calculating fall of pressure in distributing mains, equivalent to a current of one ampère flowing through one foot of conductor.