The elastic, compressible, and dilatable fluid encompassing the terraqueous globe. It penetrates and pervades other bodies, and thus animates and excites all nature.
♦ Air means also a gentle breath of wind gliding over the surface of the water.
♦ To air, to dry or ventilate.
·noun Intelligence; information. II. Air ·noun Odoriferous or contaminated air. III. Air ·noun Utt...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The atmosphere, as opposed to the higher regions of the sky (1 Thess. 4:17; Rev. 9:2; 16:17). This w...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
·- A sack or matters inflated with air, and used as a bed. ...
·- A sac or bladder full of air in an animal or plant; also an air hole in a casting. II. Air bladd...
·- A railway brake operated by condensed air. ...
·add. ·- A kind of atomizer for applying liquid coloring matter in a spray by compressed air. ...
·- A cavity in the cellular tissue of plants, containing air only. II. Air cell ·- A receptacle of ...
·- A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant. II. Air chamber ·- A cavity containi...
·- A faucet to allow escape of air. ...
·add. ·- In gasoline-engine motor vehicles, the cooling of the cylinder by increasing its radiating ...
·- A drill driven by the elastic pressure of condensed air; a pneumatic drill. ...
·- An engine driven by heated or by compressed air. ...
·add. ·- An air-filled gap in a magnetic or electric circuit; specif., in a dynamo or motor, the spa...
·- ·see under <<Gas>>. ...
·- A kind of gun in which the elastic force of condensed air is used to discharge the ball. The air ...
·- A fault in a casting, produced by a bubble of air; a blowhole. II. Air hole ·- A hole to admit o...
·- A jacket having air-tight cells, or cavities which can be filled with air, to render persons buoy...
·- Spirit level. ·see <<Level>>. ...
·add. ·- A path through the air made easy for aerial navigation by steady winds. ...
·- A pipe for the passage of air; ·esp. a ventilating pipe. ...
·- A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone; an <<Aerophyte>>. ...
·- An instrument to measure the weight of air. ...
·- A pump used to exhaust from a condenser the condensed steam, the water used for condensing, and a...
·- One of the spaces in different parts of the bodies of birds, which are filled with air and connec...
·- A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel. ...
·- A stove for heating a current of air which is directed against its surface by means of pipes, and...
·- A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds,...
·adj Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle. ...
·adj Drawn in air; imaginary. ...
·adj Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime. ...
·noun A stove the draft of which can be almost entirely shut off. II. Air-tight ·adj So tight as to...
·add. ·- A transparent limpid liquid, slightly blue in color, consisting of a mixture of liquefied o...
·adj Taking place in the open air; outdoor; as, an open-air game or meeting. ...
A vesicle containing gas, situated immediately beneath the spinal column in most fish, and often com...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Defying the winds. ...
in the marine engine, is to receive the gases which enter the hot-well from the air-pump, where, aft...
A cavity formed by omission of a timber in the upper works of a vessel, to admit fresh air into the ...
A silent weapon, which propels bullets by the expansive force of air only. ...
A leathern garment furnished with inflated bladders, to buoy the wearer up in the water. (See ayr.) ...
Funnels for clearing ships' holds of foul air, on the principle of the rarefying power of heat. ...
Large scuttles in ships' bows for the admission of air, when the other ports are down. The Americans...
An apparatus to remove the water and gases accumulating in the condenser while the engine is at work...
The same as air-ports. ...
Vertical holes made in mining, to supply the adits with fresh air. Wooden shafts are sometimes adopt...
May be generated by circumstances beyond control: decomposing fungi, timber injected with coal tar, ...
He has had air and exercise, i.e. he has been whipped at the cart's tail; or, as it is generally, th...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
·add. ·- = Air hole, above. ...