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Adroit in the application of the telescope and quadrant." Horsley. "He was adroit in intrigue." Macaulay.

to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc. The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue with strange words. Spectator.

Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely; as, an affair of honor, i. e., a duel; an affair of love, i. e., an intrigue.

A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceæ) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice…

here the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. C. Sprague.

motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue. Shaking it with agile hand. Cowper.

ted the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.

Without tongue; tongueless.

A disease occurring in Bengal and other parts of the East Indies, in which the tongue chaps and cleaves.

Having the qualities of an ague; somewhat cold or shivering; chilly; shaky. Her aguish love now glows and burns. Granville.

To guess or conjecture. [Obs.] Shak.

A commander of a castle or fortress among the Spaniards, Portuguese, and Moors.

rties, 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.

United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally.

ion between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy; -- often followed by to or with. O chief! in blood, and now in arms allied. Pope.

An unguent of the gods. His dewy locks distilled ambrosia. Milton.

In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan.

A fault, wrong, or mistake. [Obs.] Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss. Shak.

em in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil.

Love making; a love affair; usually, an unlawful connection in love; a love intrigue; an illicit love affair. In amours with, in love with. [Obs.]