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s of plants are not at first in act, but in possibility, what they afterward grow to be. Hooker.

Clinging, as by hooks.

adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has . . . adjectived all three. Tooke.

To regard with wonder and delight; to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, 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.

At the door; of the door; as, out adoors. Shak. I took him in adoors. Vicar's Virgil (1630).

th herself with her jewels. Isa. lxi. 10. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place. Goldsmith.

Additional signification. [R.] Tooke.

To denote additionally. [R.] Tooke.

Hooked; as, a parrot has an adunc bill.

Curvature inwards; hookedness. The aduncity of the beaks of hawks. Pope.

Curved inwards; hooked.

Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt. A tall, thin man, of an adust complexion. Sir W. Scott.

One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second Adventists. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

A social pretender on the lookout for advancement.

A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes. These parchments are supposed to have been St. Paul's adversaria. Bp. Bull.

Fondness; affection. [Obs.] Hooker.

Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law. Hooker.

expresses a stronger impression than fear, or apprehension, perhaps less than terror. He looks behind him with affright, and forward with despair. Goldsmith.

Subsequent to and notwithstanding; as, after all our advice, you took that course.

To look after. [Poetic] Shak.