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ilkweed, swallowwort, and some other species having medicinal properties. Asclepias butterfly (Zoöl.), a large, handsome, red and black butterfly (Danais Archippus), found in both hemispheres. It feeds on plants of the genus Asclepias.

A genus of large and voracious two-winged flies, including the bee killer and robber fly.

A genus of plants of the natural order Leguminosæ. The species are chiefly natives of the Cape of Good Hope.

The venomous asp. [Chiefly poetic] Shak. Tennyson.

The American flying squirrel (Pteromys volucella).

Assay and essay are radically the same word; but modern usage has appropriated assay chiefly to experiments in metallurgy, and essay to intellectual and bodily efforts. See Essay.]

An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview; -- used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a bad sense. While nymphs take treats, or assignations give. Pope.

Indemnification for injury; satisfaction. [Chiefly in Scots law]

power or command; as, the local authorities of the States; the military authorities. [Chiefly in the plural.]

A self-moving machine, or one which has its motive power within itself; -- applied chiefly to machines which appear to imitate spontaneously the motions of living beings, such as men, birds, etc.

The descent of a deity to earth, and his incarnation as a man or an animal; -- chiefly associated with the incarnations of Vishnu.

or its poisonous vapors, which ancient writers fancied were so malignant as to kill birds flying over it. It was represented by the poets to be connected with the infernal regions.

To fly, or navigate the air, in an aëroplane or heavier-than- air flying machine. [Colloq.]

The art or science of flying.

A flying machine.

A heavier-than-air flying machine in which the motive power is furnished solely by the aviator.

To fly away; to escape; to exhale. [Obs.]

The act of flying; flight; evaporation. [Obs.]

On the wing; flying; fluttering. Wallace.

A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland.