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Serving to help or assist; helping. [Obs.]

A female helper or assistant. [R.]

See Allocution. [Obs.]

A rolling toward something. [R.]

An adulterer. [Obs.]

An adulteress. [Obs.] Bacon.

Adultery. [Obs.] Bacon.

An aërial navigator; a balloonist.

Pertaining to aëronautics, or aërial sailing.

The science or art of ascending and sailing in the air, as by means of a balloon; aërial navigation; ballooning.

In a flutter; agitated.

Uniting, as glue; causing, or tending to cause, adhesion. -- n.

Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc. See Agglutination, 2.

which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See Agglutinative, 2.

Pertaining to agglutination; tending to unite, or having power to cause adhesion; adhesive.

Inability to swallow.

A small insectivorous mammal (Solenodon paradoxus), allied to the moles, found only in Hayti.

A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta, about the size of a rabbit, peculiar to South America and the West Indies. The most common species is the Dasyprocta agouti.

A tube through which is water is discharged; an efflux tube; as, the ajutage of a fountain.

A chronic skin affection terminating in an ulcer, most commonly of the face. It is endemic along the Mediterranean, and is probably due to a specific bacillus. Called also Aleppo ulcer, Biskara boil, Delhi boil, Oriental sore, etc.