[Æolian action], action of the wind as causing geologic changes.

[Æolian Islands], the [Lipari Islands] (q. v.).

[Æo`lians], one of the Greek races who, originating in Thessaly, spread north and south, and emigrated into Asia Minor, giving rise to the Æolic dialect of the Greek language.

[Æolotropy], a change in the physical properties of bodies due to a change of position.

[Æ`olus], the Greek god of the winds.

[Æon], among the Gnostics, one of a succession of powers conceived as emanating from God and presiding over successive creations and transformations of being.

[Æpyor`nis], a gigantic fossil bird of Madagascar, of which the egg is six times larger than that of an ostrich.

[Æ`qui], a tribe on NE. of Latium, troublesome to the Romans until subdued in 302 B.C.

[Aerated bread], bread of flour dough charged with carbonic acid gas.

[Aerated waters], waters aerated with carbonic acid gas.