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Inflames; glowing with light or passion; ablaze. G. Eliot.

, and never age for all that. Holland. I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-colored, hair here and there. Landor.

Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion. With cries and agonies of wild delight. Pope.

exclamation, expressive of surprise, pity, complaint, entreaty, contempt, threatening, delight, triumph, etc., according to the manner of utterance.

r Being of the ancient Persians; the Prince of Darkness as opposer to Ormuzd, the King of Light.

Symbolically: Something unsubstantial, light, or volatile. "Charm ache with air." Shak. He was still all air and fire. Macaulay . [Air and fire being the finer and quicker elements as opposed to earth and water.]

In an airy manner; lightly; gaily; jauntily; fippantly.

Lightness of spirits; gayety; levity; as, the airiness of young persons.

A thoughtless, gay person. [Obs.] "Slight airlings." B. Jonson.

Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aërial; as, an airy flight. "The airy region." Milton.

Slightly turned or opened; as, the door was standing ajar.

there are several species. They are the largest of sea birds, capable of long- continued flight, and are often seen at great distances from the land. They are found chiefly in the southern hemisphere.

Whiteness. Specifically: (Astron.) The ratio which the light reflected from an unpolished surface bears to the total light falling upon that surface.

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

ilitude; similar; without difference. [Now used only predicatively.] The darkness and the light are both alike to thee. Ps. cxxxix. 12.

Tending to the properties of an alkali; slightly alkaline.

A kind of light armor used in the sixteenth century, esp. by the Swiss. Fairholt.

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

To lighten or lessen the force or weight of. [Obs.] Should no others join capable to alleviate the expense. Evelyn. Those large bladders . . . conduce much to the alleviating of the body [of flying birds]. Ray.

The act of alleviating; a lightening of weight or severity; mitigation; relief.