an airheaded person.

lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; scatterbrained; stupid; simple-minded; as, airheaded teenagers. Contrasted with serious, solemn

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

The state or quality of being airy; openness or exposure to the air; as, the airiness of a country seat.

A walk or a ride in the open air; a short excursion for health's sake.

Not open to a free current of air; wanting fresh air, or communication with the open air.

Resembling air.

A thoughtless, gay person.

A man who ascends or flies in an aircraft; an aviator; an airplane pilot.

Art, skill, or ability in the practice of aerial navigation; aircraft piloting.

A grayish green antiseptic powder, consisting of a basic iodide and gallate of bismuth, sometimes used in place of iodoform.

A hollow cylinder to contain air. It is closed above and open below, and has its open end plunged into water.

a heavier-than-air aircraft. Same as aeroplane{2}.

a propeller designed for propelling airplanes.

an airplane propeller.

a steerable self-propelled light-than-air aircraft.

Affected with air sickness or a/rial sickness; feeling nauseous due to riding in an airplane.

the atmosphere above a nation and deemed to be under its jurisdiction.

a relatively well-defined prevailing wind.

an airfield without normal airport facilities.

to point out the way; to direct or guide.

Toward the air; upward.

the medium of transmission of signals by radio or television stations; by radio transmission; -- used non-technically; as, over the airwaves, i. e. by radio or television.

a duct that provides ventilation, as in mines.

A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft; a woman aviator; a woman airplane pilot or balloonist; an aviatrix.

fitness to fly.

fit to fly; -- said of aircraft. Opposite of unairworthy.

Consisting of air; as, an airy substance; the airy parts of bodies.

A lateral division of a building, separated from the middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall. Improperly used also for the have; -- as in the phrases, a church with three aisles, the middle aisle. Also (perhaps from confusion with alley), a passage into which the pews of a church open.

Furnished with an aisle or aisles.

Without an aisle.

Oat.

The letter h or H.

The bone of the rump; also, the cut of beef surrounding this bone.

See /tiology.

a natural family of succulent herbs or small shrubs mostly of South Africa but also New Zealand and North America: carpetweeds; fig marigolds.

In a state of discord; out of harmony; as, he is ajar with the world.

See Ajouan.

On the jog.

of or pertaining to objects which are pierced or decorated with an openwork pattern.

The fruit of Ammi Copticum, syn. Carum Ajowan, used both as a medicine and as a condiment. An oil containing thymol is extracted from it. Called also Javanee seed, Javanese seed, and ajava.

A tube through which water is discharged; an efflux tube; as, the ajutage of a fountain.

See Ache.

a tree (Blighia sapida) widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits; introduced in Jamaica by Captain Bligh of the HMS Bounty.

Same as Achene.

a family comprising the bubble shells.

See Acton.

With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward.

Of the same kin; related by blood; -- used of persons; as, the two families are near akin.

Loss of the ability for voluntary muscle movement.

Of or pertaining to akinesia.

On the knee.

Scandinavian liquor usually flavored with caroway seeds.

Although; if.

All; wholly; completely; as, almighty, almost. To; at; on; -- in OF. shortened to a-. See ad-. The Arabic definite article answering to the English the; as, Alkoran, the Koran or the Book; alchemy, the chemistry.

A winglike organ, or part.

A native or resident of Alabama.

A native or resident of Alabama.

A compact variety or sulphate of lime, or gypsum, of fine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc. A hard, compact variety of carbonate of lime, somewhat translucent, or of banded shades of color; stalagmite. The name is used in this sense by Pliny. It is sometimes distinguished as oriental alabaster.

Alabastrine.

A flower bud.

An exclamation expressive of sorrow.

An exclamation expressing sorrow.

To rouse to action; to inspirit.

Brisk; joyously active; lively.

With alacrity; briskly.

Alacrity.

A cheerful readiness, willingness, or promptitude; joyous activity; briskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced with alacrity to meet the enemy.

One of a sect of freethinkers among the Muslims.

Impairment of articulate speech, or inability to speak, usually due to impairment of control of muscles in the articulatory apparatus.

Inability to utter articulate sounds, due either to paralysis of the larynx or to that form of aphasia, called motor, or ataxis, aphasia, due to loss of control of the muscles of speech.

The lowest note but one in Guido Aretino's scale of music.

The quality of being / la mode; conformity to the mode or fashion; fashionableness.

A thin, black silk for hoods, scarfs, etc.; -- often called simply mode.

To the death; mortally.

A wolfhound.

On land; to the land; ashore.

one of the natural amino acids found combined in the proteins of most living tissues. It can be isolated as a white crystalline base, C3H7NO2. The natural form is the L-configuration.

See Inulin.

Pertaining to, or having, wings.

To call to arms for defense; to give notice to (any one) of approaching danger; to rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert.

Easily alarmed or disturbed.

Aroused to vigilance; excited by fear of approaching danger; agitated; disturbed; as, an alarmed neighborhood; an alarmed modesty.

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.

the act of giving, or tendency to give, needless warnings.

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

See Alarm.

Of or pertaining to wings; also, wing-shaped.

An exclamation expressive of sorrow, pity, or apprehension of evil; -- in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas the day, like alack a day, or alas the white.

a resident of Alaska.

Lately; of late.

Winged; having wings, or side appendages like wings.

An ornamental evergreen shrub (Rhamnus alaternus) belonging to the buckthorns.

The state of being winged.

See Alan.

A vestment of white linen, reaching to the feet, an enveloping the person; -- in the Roman Catholic church, worn by those in holy orders when officiating at mass. It was formerly worn, at least by clerics, in daily life.

A name applied to several large fishes of the Mackerel family (Scombridae), esp. Thunnus alalunga (formerly Orcynus alalonga); it is a type of tuna or tunny. The name has been also applied to a larger related species, Thunnus thynnus (formerly Orcynus thynnus), common in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, which is called in New England the horse mackerel.

A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta-percha by the action of alcohol or ether.

Of or pertaining to Albania, a province of Turkey. A native of Albania.

A white metallic alloy; which is made into spoons, forks, teapots, etc. British plate or German silver. See German silver, under German.

A web-footed bird, of the genus Diomedea, of which 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. The ratio which the light reflected from an unpolished surface bears to the total light falling upon that surface.

Although; albeit.

Even though; although; notwithstanding.

A bituminous mineral resembling asphaltum, found in the county of Albert, New Brunswick.

A picture printed from a kind of gelatine plate produced by means of a photographic negative.

The act of becoming white; whitishness.

Becoming white or whitish; moderately white.

Growing or becoming white.

The process of becoming white, or developing white patches, or streaks.

same as albacore.

The act or process of making white.

Of or pertaining to the Albigenses.

A sect of reformers opposed to the church of Rome in the 12th centuries.

A female albino.

The state or condition of being an albino: abinoism; leucopathy.

Affected with albinism.

A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes is deficient or in a morbid state. An albino has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from the absence of chlorophyll.

The state or condition of being an albino; albinism.