APage 140
- English Word Aedile Definition A magistrate in ancient Rome, who had the superintendence of public buildings, highways, shows, etc.; hence, a municipal officer.
- English Word Aedileship Definition The office of an aedile.
- English Word Aegean Definition Of or pertaining to the sea, or arm of the Mediterranean sea, east of Greece. See Archipelago.
- English Word Aegicrania Definition Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls.
- English Word Aegilops Definition An ulcer or fistula in the inner corner of the eye.
- English Word Aegilops Definition The great wild-oat grass or other cornfield weed.
- English Word Aegilops Definition A genus of plants, called also hardgrass.
- English Word Aegis Definition A shield or protective armor; -- applied in mythology to the shield of Jupiter which he gave to Minerva. Also fig.: A shield; a protection.
- English Word Aegophony Definition Same as Egophony.
- English Word Aegrotat Definition A medical certificate that a student is ill.
- English Word Aemail ombrant Definition An art or process of flooding transparent colored glaze over designs stamped or molded on earthenware or porcelain.
- English Word Aeneid Definition The great epic poem of Virgil, of which the hero is Aeneas.
- English Word Aeneous Definition Colored like bronze.
- English Word Aeolian Definition Of or pertaining to Aeolia or Aeolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; aeolic; as, the Aeolian dialect.
- English Word Aeolian Definition Pertaining to Aeolus, the mythic god of the winds; pertaining to, or produced by, the wind; aerial.
- English Word Aeolic Definition Aeolian, 1; as, the Aeolic dialect; the Aeolic mode.
- English Word Aeolipile Definition Alt. of Aeolipyle
- English Word Aeolipyle Definition An apparatus consisting chiefly of a closed vessel (as a globe or cylinder) with one or more projecting bent tubes, through which steam is made to pass from the vessel, causing it to revolve.
- English Word Aeolotropic Definition Exhibiting differences of quality or property in different directions; not isotropic.
- English Word Aeolotropy Definition Difference of quality or property in different directions.