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To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone.

t the support of law; illegal. When any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds. Adam Smith.

To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument. Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own. Pope.

rejoiceth and hath his part in each other's advancement. Sir T. More. True religion . . . proposes for its end the joint advancement of the virtue and happiness of the people. Horsley.

Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots.

In hostile opposition to; unfavorable; unpropitious; contrary to one's wishes; unfortunate; calamitous; afflictive; hurtful; as, adverse fates, adverse circumstances, things adverse. Happy were it for us all if we bore prosperity as well and wisely as we endure an adverse fortune. Southey. Adverse possession (Law), a p…

Proper to be advised or to be done; expedient; prudent. Some judge it advisable for a man to account with his heart every day. South.

Exhibiting differences of quality or property in different directions; not isotropic. Sir W. Thomson.

Difference of quality or property in different directions.

The science which treats of the properties of the air, and of the part it plays in nature. Craig.

An instrument, proposed by Edison, for greatly intensifying speech. It consists of a phonograph diaphragm so arranged that its action opens and closes valves, producing synchronous air blasts sufficient to operate a larger diaphragm with greater amplitude of vibration.

ng machine, or a small plane for experiments on flying, which floats in the air only when propelled through it.

Propagated in an unusual way; cryptogamous.

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.

hich is asserted; an assertion; a positive as, an affirmation, by the vender, of title to property sold, or of its quality.

Expressing the agreement of the two terms of a proposition.

y; to attach physically. Should they [caterpillars] affix them to the leaves of a plant improper for their food. Ray.

edge; supernatural impulse; inspiration. A poet writing against his genius will be like a prophet without his afflatus. Spence.

An abundant supply, as of thought, words, feelings, etc.; profusion; also, abundance of property; wealth. And old age of elegance, affluence, and ease. Coldsmith.

According to the direction and influence of; in proportion to; befitting. [Archaic] He takes greatness of kingdoms according to bulk and currency, and not after their intrinsic value. Bacon. After all, when everything has been considered; upon the whole. -- After (with the same noun preceding and following), as, wave…