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An aid-de-camp, so called by abbreviation; as, a general's aid. Aid prayer (Law), a proceeding by which a defendant beseeches and claims assistance from some one who has a further or more permanent interest in the matter in suit. -- To pray in aid, to beseech and claim such assistance.

To allay or alleviate; to lighten. [Obs.] That shall alegge this bitter blast. Spenser.

Resisting poison; obviating the effects of venom; alexipharmic.

To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; as, to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity. It would allay the burning quality of that fell poison. Shak.

To alleviate; to lighten, as a burden or a trouble. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Alluvial. [R.] Johnson.

A yellowish translucent resin resembling copal, found as a fossil in alluvial soils, with beds of lignite, or on the seashore in many places. It takes a fine polish, and is used for pipe mouthpieces, beads, etc., and as a basis for a fine varnish. By friction, it becomes strongly electric.

ng to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial. De Quincey.

, and others; and the rest; and similar things; and other things or ingredients. The abbreviation, etc. (et cetera), or &c., is usually read and so forth.

An anomaly; a deviation from rule. Hooker.

Deviating from a general rule, method, or analogy; abnormal; irregular; as, an anomalous proceeding.

Deviation from the common rule; an irregularity; anything anomalous. We are enabled to unite into a consistent whole the various anomalies and contending principles that are found in the minds and affairs of men. Burke. As Professor Owen has remarked, there is no greater anomaly in nature than a bird that can not fly.…

Alleviating pain. -- n.

Deviating from the proper order of time. -- An`ti*chron"ic*al*ly, adv.

Deviation from the true order of time; anachronism. [R.] Selden.

A book containing a collection of antiphons; the book in which the antiphons of the breviary, with their musical notes, are contained.

The wild Guinea pig of Brazil (Cavia aperea).

on. Another abuse of the tongue I might add, -- vehement asseverations upon slight and trivial occasions. Ray.

impregnated with saltpeter. The fumes from the burning paper are often inhaled as an alleviative by asthmatics.

To fill up with alluvial earth. [Obs.] Ray.