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The mouth or anterior opening of a coelenterate animal.

A balloon.

Of or pertaining to aërostatics; pneumatic.

The science that treats of the equilibrium of elastic fluids, or that of bodies sustained in them. Hence it includes aëronautics.

The science of weighing air; aërostatics. [Obs.]

Hindmost; -- opposed to foremost.

Nearest the stern.

Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism. -- Ag*nos"tic*al*ly, adv.

That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies. Specifically: (Theol.)

sses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable pasture grasses.

Pertaining to agrostography.

A description of the grasses.

Pertaining to agrostology.

One skilled in agrostology.

That part of botany which treats of the grasses.

The plant costmary, which was formerly much used for flavoring ale.

Nearly; well nigh; all but; for the greatest part. Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. Acts xxvi. 28. Almost never, scarcely ever. -- Almost nothing, scarcely anything.

Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides. -- n.

With a narrow mouth, as the shell of certain gastropods.

An aromatic bark used as a tonic, obtained from a South American of the rue family (Galipea cusparia, or officinalis). U. S. Disp.