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Being in a state of abeyance.

A form of hydro-aëroplane; a flying boat.

The act or art of alloying metals; also, the combination or alloy.

or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy. A deep clay, giving much annoyance to passengers. Fuller. For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies. Wilkins.

Same as Anthokyan.

The blue coloring matter of certain flowers. Same as Cyanin.

Of or pertaining to a portion of the horn of the hyoid bone.

The language of the original Aryans. [Written also Arian.]

To make Aryan (a language, or in language). K. Johnston.

That may be assayed.

A double cyanide of gold and some other metal or radical; -- called also cyanaurate.

A native nurse for children; also, a lady's maid. [India]

A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.

A yard belonging to a barn.

Noting two small bones, forming the body of the inverted hyoid arch.

Woolen yarn. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

The East Indian weaver bird (Ploceus Philippinus).

A large, edible, siluroid fish of the Nile, of two species (Bagrina bayad and B. docmac).

A female dancer in the East Indies. [Written also bajadere.]

A violent thunder squall occurring on the south coast of Cuba, esp. near Bayamo. The gusts, called bayamo winds, are modified foehn winds.