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A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.

The first Sunday after Easter Sunday, properly Albless Sunday, because in the early church those who had been baptized on Easter eve laid aside on the following Saturday their white albs which had been put on after baptism.

Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture.

A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.

complete change or substitution of material; -- thus limonite is frequently an allomorph after pyrite. G. H. Williams.

account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth. After making the largest allowance for fraud. Macaulay.

nset or sunrise on the summits of mountains; specif., a reillumination sometimes observed after the summits have passed into shadow, supposed to be due to a curving downward (refraction) of the light rays from the west resulting from the cooling of the air.

Art or process of producing, and printing from, aluminium plates, after the manner of ordinary lithography. -- A*lu`mi*no*graph"ic (#), a.

g. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech. After many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is. Burton.

To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet. [R.] Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage. Trumbull.

After the manner of ambrosia; delightfully. "Smelt ambrosially." Tennyson.

Friendly; proceeding from, or exhibiting, friendliness; after the manner of friends; peaceable; as, an amicable disposition, or arrangement. That which was most remarkable in this contest was . . . the amicable manner in which it was managed. Prideoux. Amicable action (Law.), an action commenced and prosecuted by amica…

., worn as a charm or preservative against evils or mischief, such as diseases and witchcraft, and generally inscribed with mystic forms or characters.

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

Recovery of strength after sickness.

Restorative; giving strength after disease. -- n.

The part of a polariscope which receives the light after polarization, and exhibits its properties.

Pertaining to an anchoret or hermit; after the manner of an anchoret.

The corner or quoin of a wall, cross-beam, or rafter. [Obs.] Gwilt.

In order to; -- used instead of the infinitival to, especially after try, come, go. At least to try and teach the erring soul. Milton.