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, and to be the medium of transmission of light and heat; hence often called luminiferous ether.

r air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions. Go, heavenly guest, ethereal messenger. Milton.

Ethereality.

The state of being ethereal; etherealness. Something of that ethereality of thought and manner which belonged to Wordsworth's earlier lyrics. J. C. Shairp.

An ethereal or spiritlike state. J. H. Stirling.

To convert into ether, or into subtile fluid; to saturate with ether.

In an ethereal manner.

Ethereality.

Formed of ether; ethereal. [Obs.] This ethereous mold whereon we stand. Milton.

The act or process of making ether; specifically, the process by which a large quantity of alcohol is transformed into ether by the agency of a small amount of sulphuric, or ethyl sulphuric, acid.

Having the form of ether.

lymeric variety of ethylene, obtained in heavy oil of wine, the residue left after making ether; -- formerly called also concrete oil of wine.

The administration of ether to produce insensibility.

To convert into ether.

An oily hydrocarbon regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, produced with etherin.

See Ether.

All together; conjointly. [Obs.] Altogether they wenChaucer.

A wether, or sheep, which leads the flock, with a bell on his neck.

Matter; affair.

osition; belonging to the region below; lower; under; -- opposed to upper. 'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires. Milton. This darksome nether world her light Doth dim with horror and deformity. Spenser. All my nether shape thus grew transformed. Milton.