- A long time
- A long time (coll)
- A long time in bandages after group left
- A long time to be trapped inside, stage-struck
- A while
- Aeons
- Becomes old
- America grows old in its practices
- Applications
- Customary practices
- A long, footless lizard (Ophiosaurus ventralis), of
the Southern United States; -- so called from its fragility, the tail
easily breaking into small pieces. It grows to the length of three
feet. The name is applied also to similar species found in the Old
World.
- A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus
(Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk.
It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as
tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong
solution of niter.