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The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.

; approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the plural. [He] made the like advances to the dissenters. Swift.

To strike or cast down; to overthrow. [Obs.] "Reassembling our afflicted powers." Milton.

To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country.

The act of converting into forest or woodland. Blackstone.

To convert into agate; to make resemble agate. Dana.

That which surrounds and influences. The keen, the wholesome air of poverty. Wordsworth.

sceral cavity of many fishes. It originates in the same way as the lungs of air-breathing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or esophagus.

A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel.

To convert into alcohol; to rectify; also, to saturate with alcohol.

uropean shrub (Rhamnus frangula); Alder buckthorn. (b) An American species of holly (Ilex verticillata), bearing red berries.

Capable of being alkalified, or converted into an alkali.

To convert into an alkali; to give alkaline properties to.

e better, wholly the better; that is, better by the whole difference. -- All the same, nevertheless. "There they [certain phenomena] remain rooted all the same, whether we recognize them or not." J. C. Shairp. "But Rugby is a very nice place all the same." T. Arnold. -- See also under All, n.

The division of Vertebrata in which the embryo develops an allantois. It includes reptiles, birds, and mammals.

A reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned; a covert indication; indirect reference; a hint.

a point, or star, or other celestial object, above the horizon, measured by the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between such point and the horizon. It is either true or apparent; true when measured from the rational or real horizon, apparent when from the sensible or apparent horizon.

shearten; to daunt. [Obs. or Archaic] The Silures, to amate the new general, rumored the overthrow greater than was true. Milton.

surprise, or wonder; amazement. [Chiefly poetic] The wild, bewildered Of one to stone converted by amaze. Byron.

To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay.