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from quiet; to alarm. Smale foules a great heap That had afrayed [affrayed] me out of my sleep. Chaucer.

The time just after dinner. "An after-dinner's sleep." Shak. [Obs.] -- a.

A cultivator of the soil; an agriculturist. Dodsley.

Anything which prevents sleep, or produces wakefulness, as strong tea or coffee.

A half gable, as at the end of a penthouse or of the aisle of a church.

An islet, or little isle, in a river or lake; an eyot. The ait where the osiers grew. R. Hodges (1649). Among green aits and meadows. Dickens.

A mechanical contrivance for awaking persons from sleep, or rousing their attention; an alarum. Alarm bell, a bell that gives notice on danger. -- Alarm clock or watch, a clock or watch which can be so set as to ring or strike loudly at a prearranged hour, to wake from sleep, or excite attention. -- Alarm gauge, a co…

An ancient name of England, still retained in poetry. In that nook-shotten isle of Albion. Shak.

the want of the sense of hearing is much alleviated by giving the use of letters. Bp. Horsley.

cognizance of an offense; chastisement; punishment. [Archaic] "Divine animadversions." Wesley.

es. They may be distinguished from the ordinary mosquitoes of the genus Culex by the long slender palpi, nearly equaling the beak in length, while those of the female Culex are very short. They also assume different positions when resting, Culex usually holding the body parallel to the surface on which it rests and kee…

Pertaining to anthropology; belonging to the nature of man. "Anthropologic wisdom." Kingsley. -- An`thro*po*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

Tending to prevent sleep. -- n.

A place where apes are kept. [R.] Kingsley.

An oily liquid derived from parsley.

A division of Amphineura in which the body is naked or covered with slender spines or setæ, but is without shelly plates.

od at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather. Audsley.

The revelation delivered to St. John, in the isle of Patmos, near the close of the first century, forming the last book of the New Testament.

l on one for aid; to make earnest request. I appeal to the Scriptures in the original. Horsley. They appealed to the sword. Macaulay.

The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near. "The approach of summer." Horsley. A nearer approach to the human type. Owen.