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Pertaining to, or having, wings.

A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak.

Easily alarmed or disturbed.

Aroused to vigilance; excited by fear of approaching danger; agitated; disturbed; as, an alarmed neighborhood; an alarmed modesty. The white pavilions rose and fell On the alarmed air. Longfellow.

In an alarmed manner.

Exciting, or calculated to excite, alarm; causing apprehension of danger; as, an alarming crisis or report. -- A*larm"ing*ly, adv.

One prone to sound or excite alarms, especially, needless alarms. Macaulay.

See Alarm. [Now Poetic]

Of or pertaining to wings; also, wing-shaped. The alary system of insects. Wollaston.

Good against malaria.

Of or pertaining to the astragalus.

A genus of leguminous plants; rattlebox.

Didascalic. [R.]

Intercalary.

Inserted or introduced among others in the calendar; as, an intercalary month, day, etc.; -- now applied particularly to the odd day (Feb. 29) inserted in the calendar of leap year. See Bissextile, n.

Between the petals of a flower.

Of or pertaining to the region of the cheek bone, or to the malar bone; jugal.

Air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma.

hich see) and when transferred to the blood of man, by the bite of the mosquito, produce malaria. The young parasites, or sporozoites, enter the red blood corpuscles, growing at their expense, undergoing sporulation, and finally destroying the corpuscles, thus liberating in the blood plasma an immense number of small s…

Of or pertaining, to or infected by, malaria. Malarial fever (Med.), a fever produced by malaria, and characterized by the occurrence of chills, fever, and sweating in distinct paroxysms, At intervals of definite and often uniform duration, in which these symptoms are wholly absent (intermittent fever), or only partial…