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.