aeriform

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These aeriform songs rarely involve drums, which makes them feel timeless, at least in the short term.

From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2023

Here, the aeriform melodies at his back feel so beautiful, the brutality of his words vanishes in the breeze.

From Washington Post • Aug. 22, 2022

Most aeriform bodies, when subjected to compression, are made to occupy a space which diminishes in the exact ratio of the increase of the compressing force.

From Familiar Letters on Chemistry by Liebig, Justus, Freiherr von

As a rule the arteries are empty after death, and Praxagoras believed that they were filled with an aeriform fluid, a sort of pneuma, which was responsible for their pulsation.

From The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 by Osler, William

We know that this characteristic of matter diminishes gradually with its transition from the solid to the liquid and aeriform states.

From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst