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   aerial ladder
         n 1: mechanically extendible ladder; used on a fire truck

English Dictionary: aerial tramway by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
aerial ladder truck
n
  1. a fire engine carrying ladders [syn: ladder truck, aerial ladder truck]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
aerial torpedo
n
  1. a torpedo designed to be launched from an airplane
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
aerial tramway
n
  1. a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers
    Synonym(s): tramway, tram, aerial tramway, cable tramway, ropeway
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
aerolite
n
  1. a stony meteorite consisting of silicate minerals
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
aerolitic
adj
  1. of or pertaining to certain stony meteorites
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
air letter
n
  1. a letter sent by air mail [syn: airmail letter, {air letter}, aerogram, aerogramme]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
areolate
adj
  1. relating to or like or divided into areolae; "areolar tissue"
    Synonym(s): areolar, areolate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ariled
adj
  1. (of some seeds) having a fleshy and usually brightly colored cover
    Synonym(s): ariled, arillate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
arillate
adj
  1. (of some seeds) having a fleshy and usually brightly colored cover
    Synonym(s): ariled, arillate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   World \World\, n. [OE. world, werld, weorld, weoreld, AS.
      weorold, worold; akin to OS. werold, D. wereld, OHG. weralt,
      worolt, werolt, werlt, G. welt, Icel. ver[94]ld, Sw. verld,
      Dan. verden; properly, the age of man, lifetime, humanity;
      AS. wer a man + a word akin to E. old; cf. AS. yld lifetime,
      age, ylde men, humanity. Cf. {Werewolf}, {Old}.]
      1. The earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the
            system of created things; existent creation; the universe.
  
                     The invisible things of him from the creation of the
                     world are clearly seen.                     --Rom. 1. 20.
  
                     With desire to know, What nearer might concern him,
                     how this world Of heaven and earth conspicuous first
                     began.                                                --Milton.
  
      2. Any planet or heavenly body, especially when considered as
            inhabited, and as the scene of interests analogous with
            human interests; as, a plurality of worlds. [bd]Lord of
            the worlds above.[b8] --I. Watts.
  
                     Amongst innumerable stars, that shone Star distant,
                     but high-hand seemed other worlds.      --Milton.
  
                     There may be other worlds, where the inhabitants
                     have never violated their allegiance to their
                     almighty Sovereign.                           --W. B.
                                                                              Sprague.
  
      3. The earth and its inhabitants, with their concerns; the
            sum of human affairs and interests.
  
                     That forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought
                     death into the world, and all our woe. --Milton.
  
      4. In a more restricted sense, that part of the earth and its
            concerns which is known to any one, or contemplated by any
            one; a division of the globe, or of its inhabitants; human
            affairs as seen from a certain position, or from a given
            point of view; also, state of existence; scene of life and
            action; as, the Old World; the New World; the religious
            world; the Catholic world; the upper world; the future
            world; the heathen world.
  
                     One of the greatest in the Christian world Shall be
                     my surety.                                          --Shak.
  
                     Murmuring that now they must be put to make war
                     beyond the world's end -- for so they counted
                     Britain.                                             --Milton.
  
      5. The customs, practices, and interests of men; general
            affairs of life; human society; public affairs and
            occupations; as, a knowledge of the world.
  
                     Happy is she that from the world retires. --Waller.
  
                     If knowledge of the world makes man perfidious, May
                     Juba ever live in ignorance.               --Addison.
  
      6. Individual experience of, or concern with, life; course of
            life; sum of the affairs which affect the individual; as,
            to begin the world with no property; to lose all, and
            begin the world anew.
  
      7. The inhabitants of the earth; the human race; people in
            general; the public; mankind.
  
                     Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to
                     any purpose that the world can say against it.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
                     Tell me, wench, how will the world repute me For
                     undertaking so unstaid a journey?      --Shak.
  
      8. The earth and its affairs as distinguished from heaven;
            concerns of this life as distinguished from those of the
            life to come; the present existence and its interests;
            hence, secular affairs; engrossment or absorption in the
            affairs of this life; worldly corruption; the ungodly or
            wicked part of mankind.
  
                     I pray not for the world, but for them which thou
                     hast given me; for they are thine.      --John xvii.
                                                                              9.
  
                     Love not the world, neither the things that are in
                     the world. If any man love the world, the love of
                     the Father is not in him. For all that is in the
                     world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the
                     eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father,
                     but is of the world.                           --1 John ii.
                                                                              15, 16.
  
      9. As an emblem of immensity, a great multitude or quantity;
            a large number. [bd]A world of men.[b8] --Chapman. [bd]A
            world of blossoms for the bee.[b8] --Bryant.
  
                     Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company. --Shak.
  
                     A world of woes dispatched in little space.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
      {All . . . in the world}, all that exists; all that is
            possible; as, all the precaution in the world would not
            save him.
  
      {A world to see}, a wonder to see; something admirable or
            surprising to see. [Obs.]
  
                     O, you are novices; 't is a world to see How tame,
                     when men and women are alone, A meacock wretch can
                     make the curstest shrew.                     --Shak.
  
      {For all the world}.
            (a) Precisely; exactly.
            (b) For any consideration.
  
      {Seven wonders of the world}. See in the Dictionary of Noted
            Names in Fiction.
  
      {To go to the world}, to be married. [Obs.] [bd]Thus goes
            every one to the world but I . . .; I may sit in a corner
            and cry heighho for a husband![b8] --Shak.
  
      {World's end}, the end, or most distant part, of the world;
            the remotest regions.
  
      {World without end}, eternally; forever; everlastingly; as if
            in a state of existence having no end.
  
                     Throughout all ages, world without end. --Eph. iii.
                                                                              21.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   A89riality \A*[89]`ri*al"i*ty\, n.
      The state of being a[89]rial; unsubstantiality. [R.] --De
      Quincey.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   A89rolite \A"[89]r*o*lite\, n. [A[89]ro- + -lite: cf. F.
      a[82]rolithe.] (Meteor.)
      A stone, or metallic mass, which has fallen to the earth from
      distant space; a meteorite; a meteoric stone.
  
      Note: Some writers limit the word to stony meteorites.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   A89rolith \A"[89]r*o*lith\, n.
      Same as {A[?]rolite}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   A89rolithology \A`[89]r*o*li*thol"o*gy\, n. [A[89]ro- +
      lithology.]
      The science of a[89]rolites.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   A89rolitic \A`[89]r*o*lit"ic\, a.
      Of or pertaining to a[89]rolites; meteoric; as, a[89]rolitic
      iron. --Booth.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Groundnut \Ground"nut`\ (-n[ucr]t`), n. (Bot.)
      (a) The fruit of the {Arachis hypog[91]a} (native country
            uncertain); the peanut; the earthnut.
      (b) A leguminous, twining plant ({Apios tuberosa}), producing
            clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root
            tuberous and pleasant to the taste.
      (c) The dwarf ginseng ({Aralia trifolia}). [U. S.] --Gray.
      (d) A European plant of the genus {Bunium} ({B. flexuosum}),
            having an edible root of a globular shape and sweet,
            aromatic taste; -- called also {earthnut}, {earth
            chestnut}, {hawknut}, and {pignut}. [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Areolate \A*re"o*late\, Areolated \A*re"o*la*ted\, a. [L.
      areola: cf. F. ar[82]ole.]
      Divided into small spaces or areolations, as the wings of
      insects, the leaves of plants, or the receptacle of compound
      flowers.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Areolate \A*re"o*late\, Areolated \A*re"o*la*ted\, a. [L.
      areola: cf. F. ar[82]ole.]
      Divided into small spaces or areolations, as the wings of
      insects, the leaves of plants, or the receptacle of compound
      flowers.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Areolation \A`re*o*la"tion\, n.
      1. Division into areol[91]. --Dana.
  
      2. Any small space, bounded by some part different in color
            or structure, as the spaces bounded by the nervures of the
            wings of insects, or those by the veins of leaves; an
            areola.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Areolet \A*re"o*let\, n. [Dim. of L. areola.] (Zo[94]l.)
      A small inclosed area; esp. one of the small spaces on the
      wings of insects, circumscribed by the veins.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Arillate \Ar"il*late\ Arllated \Ar"l*la`ted\, Ariled \Ar"iled\,
      a. [Cf. NL. arillatus, F. arill[82].]
      Having an aril.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Arillate \Ar"il*late\ Arllated \Ar"l*la`ted\, Ariled \Ar"iled\,
      a. [Cf. NL. arillatus, F. arill[82].]
      Having an aril.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Arillode \Ar"il*lode\, n. [Arillus + Gr. [?] form.] (Bot.)
      A false aril; an aril originating from the micropyle instead
      of from the funicle or chalaza of the ovule. The mace of the
      nutmeg is an arillode.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ariolation \Ar`i*o*la"tion\, n. [L. ariolatio, hariolatio, fr.
      hariolari to prophesy, fr. hariolus soothsayer.]
      A soothsaying; a foretelling. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Arillate \Ar"il*late\ Arllated \Ar"l*la`ted\, Ariled \Ar"iled\,
      a. [Cf. NL. arillatus, F. arill[82].]
      Having an aril.

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