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

For it must apparently have formed part of an aeriform mass in which they were immersed at an earlier stage of their history.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)

The solids, liquids, and aeriform fluids of our globe are all, as has been stated, reducible into fifty-five substances hitherto called elementary. 

From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Chambers, Robert

Arguing thus, Priestley, of course, named the new aeriform substance dephlogisticated air, and thought of it as ordinary air deprived of some, or it might be all, of its phlogiston.

From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by Muir, M. M. Pattison