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A disease due to inhaling the poisonous fumes present in the manufacture of aniline.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. "Animalcular life." Tyndall.

The process used to render glass, iron, etc., less brittle, performed by allowing them to cool very gradually from a high heat.

Anything that neutralizes, or that counteracts an alkaline tendency in the system. Hoopplw.

Of power to counteract alkalies.

The crest or line in which strata slope or dip in opposite directions.

in which the beds on both sides of an axis or axial plane dip away from the axis; an anticlinal.

The upward elevation of the crust of the earth, resulting from a geanticlinal.

In honor of Apollo; as, the Apollinarian games.

An effervescing alkaline mineral water used as a table beverage. It is obtained from a spring in Apollinarisburg, near Bonn.

Such as to appall; as, an appalling accident. -- Ap*pall"ing*ly, adv.

That appeals; imploring. -- Ap*peal"*ing*ly, adv. -- Ap*peal"ing*ness, n.

t, like the beak of an eagle; -- applied particularly to the nose Terribly arched and aquiline his nose. Cowper.

An oily liquid substance, C8H13O2N, the chief alkaloid of the betel nut, to which the latter owes its anthelmintic action.

A peculiar acrid and bitter oil, obtained from wood soot.

ce or nobleman; esp., the heir apparent or a prince of the royal family. [Written also Adeling and Ætheling.]

A crystalline globulin, contained in oat kernels, very similar in composition to excelsin, but different in reactions and crystalline form.

Of or pertaining to the rod or punishment with the rod.

Frustrating; discomfiting; disconcerting; as, baffling currents, winds, tasks. -- Bafflingly, adv. -- Bafflingness, n.

A glutinous pomatum for the fair.