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One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth.

Boyle. And, truly, waking dreams were, more or less, An old and strange affection of the house. Tennyson.

To betroth or espouse; to affiance. [Obs.] Shak.

Aggrandizement. [Obs.] Waterhouse.

A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.

in this sense used adverbially for agreeably; as, agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.

A half gable, as at the end of a penthouse or of the aisle of a church.

To rouse to action; to inspirit.

sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in my holy mountain. Joel ii. 1.

Aroused to vigilance; excited by fear of approaching danger; agitated; disturbed; as, an alarmed neighborhood; an alarmed modesty. The white pavilions rose and fell On the alarmed air. Longfellow.

A bench in or before an alehouse. Bunyan.

of the officers chosen by the liverymen of London to inspect the measures used in public houses. But the office is a sinecure. [Also called aletaster.] [Eng.]

A pole set up as the sign of an alehouse. [Obs.]

A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a "bush." [Obs.] Chaucer.

A woman who keeps an alehouse. Gay.

n; -- with from. The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. Macaulay. The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present. I. Taylor.

One who distributes alms, esp. the doles and alms of religious houses, almshouses, etc.; also, one who dispenses alms for another, as the almoner of a prince, bishop, etc.

xtent, capacity, or bulk; spacious; roomy; widely extended. All the people in that ample house Did to that image bow their humble knees. Spenser.

The European ring ousel (Turdus torquatus).

ng their gold. Holland. Being amused with grief, fear, and fright, he could not find the house. Fuller.