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Love; the god of love; -- by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodite, equivalent to the Latin god Cupid.

Irregular or uneven as if eaten or worn away.

The act or operation of eroding or eating away.

That erodes or gradually eats away; tending to erode; corrosive. Humble.

Without a beak.

Having the nature of chaff; chaffy.

The hardening of a gland.

An apparatus designed for collecting spores, germs, bacteria, etc., suspended in the air.

The observation of the state and variations of the atmosphere.

Of the nature of, or like, copper; brassy. [R.]

A mass of meteoric iron.

The atmosphere. [R.]

A balloon.

Of or pertaining to aërostatics; pneumatic.

The science that treats of the equilibrium of elastic fluids, or that of bodies sustained in them. Hence it includes aëronautics.

Aërial navigation; the art of raising and guiding balloons in the air.

In heaps; full of heaps.

Abnormal thickening and hardening of the walls of the arteries, esp. of the intima, occurring mostly in old age. -- Ar*te`ri*o*scle*rot"ic (#), a.

A genus of large perching birds; the hornbills.

An East Indian resin, of a pellucid white color, from which small ornaments and toys are sometimes made.