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

Down. [Archaic & Poetic] Her hair adown her shoulders loosely lay displayed. Prior.

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.

To expose to the chemical action of air; to oxygenate (the blood) by respiration; to arterialize. Aërated bread, bread raised by charging dough with carbonic acid gas, instead of generating the gas in the dough by fermentation.

A change produced in the blood by exposure to the air in respiration; oxygenation of the blood in respiration; arterialization.

A dirigible balloon.

An aërial navigator; a balloonist.

The science or art of ascending and sailing in the air, as by means of a balloon; aërial navigation; ballooning.

A balloon.

Aërial navigation; the art of raising and guiding balloons in the air.

Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -- in contradistinction to consanguinity, or relationship by blood; -- followed by with, to, or between. Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh. 1 Kings iii. 1.

Flowing to; flowing abundantly. "Affluent blood." Harvey.

A flowing towards; that which flows to; as, an afflux of blood to the head.

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

Denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to; as, to look after workmen; to inquire after a friend; to thirst after righteousness.

To look after. [Poetic] Shak.

l compounds, in inflective languages to chemical compounds. R. Morris. Cf. man-kind, heir-loom, war-like, which are agglutinative compounds. The Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, the Tamul, etc., are agglutinative languages. R. Morris. Agglutinative languages preserve the consciousness of their roots. Max Müller.…

One of a body of men appointed by the army, in Cromwell's time, to look after their interests; -- called also adjutators. Clarendon.