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Advice; counsel; suggestion; also, a dispatch or advice boat. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A diphthong in the Latin language; used also by the Saxon writers. It answers to the Gr. æ was generally replaced by a, the long e or ee. In derivatives from Latin words with ae, it is mostly superseded by e. For most words found with this initial combination, the reader will therefore search under the letter E.…

A genus of plants, called also hardgrass.

tective armor; -- applied in mythology to the shield of Jupiter which he gave to Minerva. Also fig.: A shield; a protection.

bes, through which steam is made to pass from the vessel, causing it to revolve. [Written also eolipile.]

A period of immeasurable duration; also, an emanation of the Deity. See Eon.

The nest of a bird of prey, as of an eagle or hawk; also a brood of such birds; eyrie. Shak. Also fig.: A human residence or resting place perched like an eagle's nest.

Growing or thriving only in the presence of oxygen; also, pertaining to, or induced by, aërobies; as, aërobic fermentation. -- A`ër*o"bic*al*ly (#), adv.

One of the air cells of algals.

Divination from the state of the air or from atmospheric substances; also, forecasting changes in the weather.

Of or belonging to the summer; as, æstival diseases. [Spelt also estival.]

To pass the summer in a state of torpor. [Spelt also estivate.]

The arrangement of the petals in a flower bud, as to folding, overlapping, etc.; prefloration. Gray. [Spelt also estivation.]

An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show. "An affectation of contempt." Macaulay. Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural what is natural. Locke.

Given to false show; assuming or pretending to posses what is not natural or real. He is . . . too spruce, too affected, too odd. Shak.

Affected; given to false show. [Obs.] A drawling; affecting rouge. Shak.

or attraction held to exist sometimes between persons, esp. persons of the opposite sex; also, the man or woman who exerts such psychical or spiritual attraction.

An abundant supply, as of thought, words, feelings, etc.; profusion; also, abundance of property; wealth. And old age of elegance, affluence, and ease. Coldsmith.

The act of frightening; also, a cause of terror; an object of dread. B. Jonson.

A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.