APage 188
- 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.
- English Word Air brake Definition A railway brake operated by condensed air.
- English Word Air cell Definition A cavity in the cellular tissue of plants, containing air only.
- English Word Air cell Definition A receptacle of air in various parts of the system; as, a cell or minute cavity in the walls of the air tubes of the lungs; the air sac of birds; a dilatation of the air vessels in insects.
- English Word Air chamber Definition A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant.
- English Word Air chamber Definition A cavity containing air to act as a spring for equalizing the flow of a liquid in a pump or other hydraulic machine.
- English Word Air cock Definition A faucet to allow escape of air.
- English Word Air drill Definition A drill driven by the elastic pressure of condensed air; a pneumatic drill.
- English Word Air engine Definition An engine driven by heated or by compressed air.
- English Word Air gas Definition See under Gas.
- English Word Air gun Definition A kind of gun in which the elastic force of condensed air is used to discharge the ball. The air is powerfully compressed into a reservoir attached to the gun, by a condensing pump, and is controlled by a valve actuated by the trigger.