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A passage for wind or air; a passage or pipe for ventilating apartments. Gwilt.

Any species of vermetus.

The week commencing with Whitsunday, esp. the first three days -- Whitsunday, Whitsun Monday, and Whitsun Tuesday; the time of Pentecost. R. of Gloucester.

Winter time. Tennyson.

Christmas time; Christmastide; the season of Christmas.

revolution is now shorter than in ancient times. -- Acceleration and retardation of the tides. See Priming of the tides, under Priming. -- Diurnal acceleration of the fixed stars, the amount by which their apparent diurnal motion exceeds that of the sun, in consequence of which they daily come to the meridian of any…

A larval entozoön in the form of a subglobular or oval vesicle, or hy datid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts o…

A long time. [Colloq.] "He made minutes an age." Tennyson. Age of a tide, the time from the origin of a tide in the South Pacific Ocean to its arrival at a given place. -- Moon's age, the time that has elapsed since the last preceding conjunction of the sun and moon.

An additional name, or an epithet appended to a name; as, Aristides the Just.

An antidote against poison or infection; a counterpoison.

Expelling or counteracting poison; antidotal.

such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc. Nautical almanac, an almanac, or year book, containing astronomical calculations (lunar, stellar, etc.), and other information useful to mariners.

urns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; -- followed by with; as, the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other. Rage, shame, and grief alternate in his breast. J. Philips. Different species alternating with each other. Kirwan.

A coal-black marble, usually emitting a fetid smell when rubbed; -- called also stinkstone and swinestone.

Antidotal; alexipharmic.

Connected with the apogee; as, apogean (neap) tides, which occur when the moon has passed her apogee.

nsions from the stomach. Sir T. Browne. Ascension Day, the Thursday but one before Whitsuntide, the day on which commemorated our Savior's ascension into heaven after his resurrection; -- called also Holy Thursday. -- Right ascension (Astron.), that degree of the equinoctial, counted from the beginning of Aries, which…

enture; risk; hardship; state of being tried. [Obs.] Through many hard assays which did betide. Spenser.

res of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides. Oxf. Gloss.

from compressed air or the creation of a vacuum, is the propelling force. -- Atmospheric tides. See under Tide.