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Easy to be spoken to or addressed; receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; courteous; sociable. An affable and courteous gentleman. Shak. His manners polite and affable. Macaulay.

The love feast of the primitive Christians, being a meal partaken of in connection with the communion.

Provocation; irritation. [Colloq.] Dickens.

Taken together; collective.

n eyot. The ait where the osiers grew. R. Hodges (1649). Among green aits and meadows. Dickens.

ien; alienage. The law was very gentle in the construction of the disability of alienism. Kent.

Lighted; lighted up; in a flame. "The lamps were alight." Dickens.

takes to prove, -- usually applied to each separate averment; the charge or matter undertaken to be proved.

A choice taw or marble. Dickens.

The science of representing spoken sounds by letters.

The expression of spoken sounds by an alphabet. Encyc. Brit.

ne of which may be chosen, but not both; a choice between two things, so that if one is taken, the other must be left. There is something else than the mere alternative of absolute destruction or unreformed existence. Burke.

To lower the topsail, in token of surrender; to yield.

annulus, and white spores. The species resemble edible mushrooms, and are frequently mistaken for them. Amanita muscaria, syn. Agaricus muscarius, is the fly amanita, or fly agaric; and A. phalloides is the death cup.

A picture taken on a place of prepared glass, in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the unsilvered portions of the glass.

A love knot, love token, or love song. (pl.) Love glances or love tricks. [Obs.]

A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different. Thus, learning enlightens the mind, because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before hidden.

The stamens of a flower taken collectively.

Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress. But they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. Ex. vi. 9. Anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child. Jer. iv. 31.

To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.