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To exhort; to advise. [Obs.] Feltham.

Advice; exhortation. [Obs.] Peacham.

icting claims, as in set-off, contribution, exoneration, subrogation, and marshaling. Bispham.

Attached or annexed to the glebe or estate and transferable with it. Brougham.

adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture. The shameless adulteration of the coin. Prescott.

most sanctuary or shrine in ancient temples, whence oracles were given. Hence: A private chamber; a sanctum.

t, etc.; to be able or rich enough. The merchant can afford to trade for smaller profits. Hamilton. He could afford to suffer With those whom he saw suffer. Wordsworth.

An offense to one's self-respect; shame. Arbuthnot.

Shamelessly. [Obs.] Bacon.

Named before. Peacham.

r disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and…

cts, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheæ, of plants spiral vessels.

Brisk; joyously active; lively. 'T were well if we were a little more alacrious. Hammond.

Alacrity. [Obs.] Hammond.

One of a sect of freethinkers among the Mohammedans.

An ornamental evergreen shrub (Rhamnus alaternus) belonging to the buckthorns.

The imaginary milk-white animal on which Mohammed was said to have been carried up to heaven; a white mule.

The jurisdiction or office of an alcalde; also, the building or chamber in which he conducts the business of his office.

cohol, in which the latter plays a part analogous to that of water of crystallization. Graham.

The Mohammedan Scriptures; the Koran (now the usual form). [Spelt also Alcoran.]