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An adjective, or attribute. [R.] Coleridge.

Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution.

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

An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc. , are affections of bodies. "The affections of quantity." Boyle. And, truly, waking dreams were, more or less, An old and strange affection of the house. Tennyson.

To make a solemn declaration, before an authorized magistrate or tribunal, under the penalties of perjury; to testify by affirmation.

Capable of being affirmed, asserted, or declared; -- followed by of; as, an attribute affirmable of every just man.

A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream.

Said before, or in a preceding part; already described or identified.

ting to am equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens. His Grace's landed possessions are irresistibly inviting to an agrarian experiment. Burke.

equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land.

To distribute according to, or to imbue with, the principles of agrarianism.

Description or comparative study of the customs of savage or uncivilized tribes.

The science of the distribution and management of land.

A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his lord on special occasions. Blackstone.

tor vehicles, the cooling of the cylinder by increasing its radiating surface by means of ribs or radiators, and placing it so that it is exposed to a current of air. Cf. Water cooling. -- Air"-cooled`, a.

ng a current of air which is directed against its surface by means of pipes, and then distributed through a building.

A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc.

Belonging to the Alemanni, a confederacy of warlike German tribes.

see and Virginia, with the exception of the territory occupied by the northern Iroquoian tribes. There are nearly 100,000 Indians of the Algonquian tribes, of which the strongest are the Ojibwas (Chippewas), Ottawas, Crees, Algonquins, Micmacs, and Blackfeet. -- n.

One of a widely spread family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence.