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 DICTIONARY OF AVIATION 15

air-bottle 'e:<r,betl n. a bottle used for collecting and con- taining a sample of atmosfenc air, as while ballooning at certain heights or in certain localities.

air-buoy 'e:z,bou-i n. a buoy designed to float or sustain it- self in the air or atmosfere.

air-car 'c:z,ka:z n.

1. a car designed to travel thru the air; an aerial car; an air^machine ; a flying^machine.

2. a modified balloon or aerostat designed to travel upon the wires or rails of an aerial railway.

air-cell 'e:z,sel n. one of the numerous cells or cavities in birds, insects, and certain other flying creatures (and also, sometimes, in animals which do net fly), held by some to be related to respiration or aeration of the blood and by others to be related to the equilibrating or balancing of the body in flight.

air-chamber 'er^tSeem-baz n. a chamber or cavity fild with air in an animal or plant, as the camera or leculus in the nautilus.

air-chauff curing 'e:z-$o,fi3:-zirj n. chauff curing in the air; the driving of aeroplanes or other flying^machines in the manner characteristic of a tjaind chauffeur.

air-cooled 'e:z,kuuld adj. coold by air; having the con- densing>-apparatus coold, and the containd gas condenst by circulation of the outer air : as, an *air#coold motor.

air-craft 'e:z,ksa:ft n. [plural airier aft] a craft, vessel, or ship for sailing in the air; an airship; a flying=machine.

aircraft 'e:z,ksaft n. the craft or tjade having to do with the air; the art of aerial navigation; aviation.

air-cruise 'e:z,ksuuz n. a cruise, or sail to and fro, thru the air; an aerial cruise.

air-cruiser 'e:z,ksou-z9z n. an aerial cruiser; an armd air- ship designed for sunft transport, etc.

air-current 'e:z,kQZ3nt n. a current or stream of air; an at- mosfenc current.

air-dash 'e:z,dse$ n, a dash or sudden flight into or thru the air.

air-disturbance 'e:z-di,sti3:z-b3ns n. a disturbance of the air; a commotion or turbulence due to atmosferic currents.

airdom 'eiz-dam n. the dominion of the air; the domain or relm of the atmosfere.

air-drainage 'er^dree-nids n. the habitual movements of the air near the surface of the ground; the ground currents, collectivly, which characterize the atmosfere above a given land area.

air-drift 'e:z,drift n. the drift or stedy course of the air;

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