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A grandfather. [Obs.] Writ of Ayle, an ancient English writ which lay against a stranger who had dispossessed the demandant of land of which his grandfather died seized.

A great-grandfather. [Obs.]

The process of removing moisture from the blast of an iron blast furnace by reducing its temperature so far that it will not remain suspended as vapor in the blast current, but will be deposited as snow in the cooling apparatus. The resultant uniformly dehydrated blast effects great economy in fuel consumption, and pro…

A game; ninepins. [Prov Eng.] Carew.

Destitute of rays; hence, dark; not illuminated; blind; as, a rayless sky; rayless eyes.

[sq. root159.] Skittles. [Obs.]

Without stop or delay. Mir. for Mag.

A grandfather's grandfather. [Obs.] Writ of tresayle (O. Eng. Law), a writ which lay for a man claiming as heir to his grandfather's grandfather, to recover lands of which he had been deprived by an abatement happening on the ancestor's death. Mozley & W.

Having no road or path; pathless.

See Welaway. [Obs.]

See Ayle. [Obs.]

ed as an element, contained in the atmosphere and remarkable for its chemical inertness. Rayleigh and Ramsay.

science. It received its impetus from the unsystematic but vigorous skepticism of Pierre Bayle, the physical doctrines of Newton, and the epistemological theories of Locke, in the preceding century. Its chief center was in France, where it gave rise to the skepticism of Voltaire , the naturalism of Rousseau, the sensat…

A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense. [Written also bayle.] [Obs.]

Cornish chough (Her.), a bird represented black, with red feet, and beak; -- called also aylet and sea swallow.

Secretly; privately. [Obs.] That nought she did but wayle, and often steepe Her dainty couch with tears which closely she did weepe. Spenser.

- so called by Berzelius from its forming an oil combining with chlorine. [Written also elayle.] See Ethylene.

Ninepins. See Kayles.

scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes. His nayles like a briddes claws were. Chaucer.

; dark; black; -- used chiefly in poetry. Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden scepter o'er a slumbering world. Young. Sable antelope (Zoöl.), a large South African antelope (Hippotragus niger). Both sexes have long, sharp horns. The adult male is black; the fem…