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A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.

One who is turned against another or others with a design to oppose

One who, or that which, advertises.

One who advises.

One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor.

One who has an advowson. Cowell.

A magistrate in ancient Rome, who had the superintendence of public buildings, highways, shows, etc.; hence, a municipal officer.

One who flies in an aëroplane.

One who makes much or overmuch of æsthetics. [Recent]

ouch. A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles.

One who exhibits affectation. [R.] Fitzed. Hall.

One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. "Affecters of wit." Abp. Secker.

One who affeers. Cowell.

his habitual affiance in the divine love. Sir J. Stephen. Lancelot, my Lancelot, thou in whom I have Most joy and most affiance. Tennyson.

One who makes a contract of marriage between two persons.

One who makes an affidavit. [U. S.] Burrill.

exist sometimes between persons, esp. persons of the opposite sex; also, the man or woman who exerts such psychical or spiritual attraction.

; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true; -- opposed to deny. Jesus, . . . whom Paul affirmed to be alive. Acts xxv. 19.

One who affirms or asserts.

A solemn declaration made under the penalties of perjury, by persons who conscientiously decline taking an oath, which declaration is in law equivalent to an oath. Bouvier.