a. Obs. [f. L. āere-us or āeri-us, adj. f. āer air, + -OUS.] Of the nature of air, airy; = AERIAL, of which it may be viewed as a by-form of earlier date.
1594. Plat, Jewell-house, III. 81. So as the lightest or most aereous, or fierie [liquor] bee placed uppermost.
1657. Austen, Fruit Trees, I. 104. Whatsoever is a thin aerious light body ascends upwards.
1677. Gale, Crt. of Gentiles, II. III. 133. Affirming that our Bodies after the resurrection should be round, aereous, and not of the same substance they now are.
