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Profitableness.

Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign. To things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. Burke.

Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons. Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve. Milton.

In an adventurous manner; venturesomely; boldly; daringly.

The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness.

Hostile. [R.] Southey.

Having opposite leaves, as plants which have the leaves so arranged on the stem.

Colored like bronze.

The god of the winds.

Conveying or containing air; air-bearing; as, the windpipe is an aëriferous tube.

An aëroplane or airship designed to carry passengers.

Of the nature or color of verdigris, or the rust of copper.

The god of medicine. Hence, a physician.

Glowing; agitated, as with heat.

Propagated in an unusual way; cryptogamous.

Executed in a workmanlike manner; ingeniously made. [R.] Bailey.

Full of passion or emotion; earnest. [Obs.] -- Af*fec"tu*ous*ly, adv. [Obs.] Fabyan.

partation of knowledge; supernatural impulse; inspiration. A poet writing against his genius will be like a prophet without his afflatus. Spence.

To pour out or upon. [R.] I first affused water upon the compressed beans. Boyle.

The act of pouring upon, or sprinkling with a liquid, as water upon a child in baptism. Specifically: (Med)