AHOLIBA'MAH, granddaughter of Cain, and sister of Anah. She was loved by the seraph Samias'a, and like her sister was carried off to another planet when the Flood came.--Byron, _Heaven and Earth_. Proud, imperious, and aspiring, she denies that she worships the seraph, and declares that his immortality can bestow no love more pure and warm than her own, and she expresses a conviction that there is a ray within her "which, though forbidden yet to shine," is nevertheless lighted at the same ethereal fire as his own.--Finden, _Byron Beauties_. AH'RIMAN OR AHRIMA'NES (4 _syl_.), the angel of darkness and of evil in the Magian system, slain by Mithra. AIKWOOD (_Ringan_), the forester of sir Arthur Wardour, of Knockwinnock Castle.--Sir W. Scott, _The Antiquary_. AIMEE, the prudent sister, familiarly known as "the wise one" in the Bohemian household described by Francis Hodgson Burnett in _Vagabondia_ (1889). AIM'WELL _(Thomas, viscount_), a gentleman of broken fortune, who pays his addresses to Dorin'da, daughter of Lady Bountiful. He is very handsome and fascinating, but quite "a man of the world." He and Archer are the two beaux of _The Beaux' Stratagem_, a comedy by George Farquhar (1705). I thought it rather odd that Holland should be the only "mister" of the party, and I said to myself, as Gibbet said when he heard that "Aimwell" had gone to church, "That looks suspicions" (act ii. sc. 2).--James Smith, _Memoirs, Letters, etc_. (1840). AIRCASTLE, in the _Cozeners_, by S. Foote. The original of this rambling talker was Gahagan, whose method of conversation is thus burlesqued: _Aircastle_: "Did I not tell you what parson Prunello said? I remember, Mrs. Lightfoot was by. She had-been brought to bed that day was a month of a very fine boy--a bad birth; for Dr. Seeton, who served his time with Luke Lancet, of Guise's.--There was also a talk about him and Nancy the daughter. She afterwards married Will Whitlow, another apprentice, who had great expectations from an old uncle in the Grenadiers; but he left all to a distant relation, Kit Cable, a midshipman aboard the _Torbay_. She was lost coming home in the channel. The captain was taken up by a coaster from Eye, loaded with cheese--" [Now, pray, what did parson Prunello say? This is a pattern of Mrs. Nickleby's rambling gossip.] AIR'LIE (_The earl of_), a royalist in the service of king Charles I.--Sir W. Scott, _Legend of Montrose_. AIRY (_Sir George_), a man of fortune, in love with Miran'da, the ward of sir Francis Gripe.--Mrs. Centlivre, _The Busylody_ (1709). A'JAX, son of Oïleus [_O.i'.luce_], generally called "the less." In conseqnence of his insolence to Cassan'dra, the prophetic daughter of Priam, his ship was driven on a rock, and he perished at sea.--Homer, _Odyssey_, iv. 507; Virgil, _Æneid_, i. 41.