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mas. Advent Sunday (Eccl.), the first Sunday in the season of Advent, being always the nearest Sunday to the feast of St. Andrew (Now. 30). Shipley.

n eagle or hawk; also a brood of such birds; eyrie. Shak. Also fig.: A human residence or resting place perched like an eagle's nest.

A club or association of persons interested in aëronautics.

Nearest the stern; most aft.

Nearest the stern.

or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same. Blackstone.

Formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.

Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests.

Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner.

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

To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately.

Headlong; without restraint. [Obs.] L'Estrange. To go ahead. (a) To go in advance. (b) To go on onward. (c) To push on in an enterprise. [Colloq] -- To get ahead of. (a) To get in advance of.

ant beseeches and claims assistance from some one who has a further or more permanent interest in the matter in suit. -- To pray in aid, to beseech and claim such assistance.

To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof.

To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions.

The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state; an alliance between France and England.…

e have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest. He was allowed about three hundred pounds a year. Macaulay.

ve each other dearly well, And with so firm affection were allied. Spenser. The virtue nearest to our vice allied. Pope.

State of being aloof. Rogers (1642). The . . . aloofness of his dim forest life. Thoreau.

A medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations.