APage 125
- English Word Aim Definition Conjecture; guess.
- English Word Aimed Definition of Aim
- English Word Aimer Definition One who aims, directs, or points.
- English Word Aiming Definition of Aim
- English Word Aimless Definition Without aim or purpose; as, an aimless life.
- English Word Ain't Definition A contraction for are not and am not; also used for is not. [Colloq. or illiterate speech]. See An't.
- English Word Aino Definition One of a peculiar race inhabiting Yesso, the Kooril Islands etc., in the northern part of the empire of Japan, by some supposed to have been the progenitors of the Japanese. The Ainos are stout and short, with hairy bodies.
- English Word Air Definition The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable.
- English Word Air Definition Symbolically: Something unsubstantial, light, or volatile.
- English Word Air Definition A particular state of the atmosphere, as respects heat, cold, moisture, etc., or as affecting the sensations; as, a smoky air, a damp air, the morning air, etc.
- English Word Air Definition Any aeriform body; a gas; as, oxygen was formerly called vital air.
- English Word Air Definition Air in motion; a light breeze; a gentle wind.
- English Word Air Definition Odoriferous or contaminated air.
- English Word Air Definition That which surrounds and influences.
- English Word Air Definition Utterance abroad; publicity; vent.
- English Word Air Definition Intelligence; information.
- English Word Air Definition A musical idea, or motive, rhythmically developed in consecutive single tones, so as to form a symmetrical and balanced whole, which may be sung by a single voice to the stanzas of a hymn or song, or even to plain prose, or played upon an instrument; a melody; a tune; an aria.
- English Word Air Definition In harmonized chorals, psalmody, part songs, etc., the part which bears the tune or melody -- in modern harmony usually the upper part -- is sometimes called the air.
- English Word Air Definition The peculiar look, appearance, and bearing of a person; mien; demeanor; as, the air of a youth; a heavy air; a lofty air.
- English Word Air Definition Peculiar appearance; apparent character; semblance; manner; style.
- English Word Air Definition An artificial or affected manner; show of pride or vanity; haughtiness; as, it is said of a person, he puts on airs.
- English Word Air Definition The representation or reproduction of the effect of the atmospheric medium through which every object in nature is viewed.
- English Word Air Definition Carriage; attitude; action; movement; as, the head of that portrait has a good air.
- English Word Air Definition The artificial motion or carriage of a horse.
- English Word Air Definition To expose to the air for the purpose of cooling, refreshing, or purifying; to ventilate; as, to air a room.
- English Word Air Definition To expose for the sake of public notice; to display ostentatiously; as, to air one's opinion.
- English Word Air Definition To expose to heat, for the purpose of expelling dampness, or of warming; as, to air linen; to air liquors.
- English Word Air bed Definition A sack or matters inflated with air, and used as a bed.
- English Word Air bladder Definition An air sac, sometimes double or variously lobed, in the visceral cavity of many fishes. It originates in the same way as the lungs of air-breathing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or esophagus.
- English Word Air bladder Definition A sac or bladder full of air in an animal or plant; also an air hole in a casting.