[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.