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a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. Wordsworth. Hence, in specific uses:

gorous body; nimble; as, an active child or animal. Active and nervous was his gait. Wordsworth.

he leaves of which shed water; maidenhair. Also, the black maidenhair, a species of spleenwort.

To regard or hold; to judge; to deem. He adjudged him unworthy of his friendship. Knolles.

em, love, or reverence; to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape. Admired as heroes and as gods obeyed. Pope.

Entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable; as, the supposition is hardly admissible. -- Ad*mis"si*ble*ness, n. -- Ad*mis"si*bly, adv.

Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors. The adorable Author of Christianity. Cheyne.

The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration. Johnson.

o on the sea shall be set adrift. Dryden. Were from their daily labor turned adrift. Wordsworth.

One who adulterates or corrupts. [R.] Cudworth.

An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel. We may give advice, but we can not give conduct. Franklin.

To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn. "I shall no more advise thee." Milton.

smaller profits. Hamilton. He could afford to suffer With those whom he saw suffer. Wordsworth.

; frightful. -- Af*fright"ful*ly, adv. [Archaic] Bugbears or affrightful apparitions. Cudworth.

That which surrounds and influences. The keen, the wholesome air of poverty. Wordsworth.

metimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion. An alien sound of melancholy. Wordsworth. Alien enemy (Law), one who owes allegiance to a government at war with ours. Abbott.

Praiseworthy; laudable. [Obs.] Hacket.

A genus of cruciferous plants; madwort. The sweet alyssum (A. maritimum), cultivated for bouquets, bears small, white, sweet- scented flowers.

merly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc.

To transpose, as the letters of a word, so as to form an anagram. Cudworth.