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nd hymns. Col. iii. 16. I warned thee, I admonished thee, foretold The danger, and the lurking enemy. Milton.

The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions. Jer. Taylor.

Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt. A tall, thin man, of an adust complexion. Sir W. Scott.

The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat. He loved excitement and adventure. Macaulay.

xposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; -- applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song.

Opposed; opposite; adverse; antagonistic. [Archaic] Bp. King.

Counsel; advise; information. [Archaic] And mused awhile, waking advisement takes of what had passed in sleep. Daniel.

h supplies with air; esp. an apparatus used for charging mineral waters with gas and in making soda water.

Consisting of air; resembling, or partaking of the nature of air. Hence: Unsubstantial; unreal.

ight, 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.

ship by blood; -- followed by with, to, or between. Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh. 1 Kings iii. 1.

One who affirms of taking an oath.

declaration made under the penalties of perjury, by persons who conscientiously decline taking an oath, which declaration is in law equivalent to an oath. Bouvier.

expression. H. Reed. Loaded and blest with all the affluent store, Which human vows at smoking shrines implore. Prior.

The act of making free; enfranchisement. [R.]

arch of; in pursuit of. Ye shall not go after other gods. Deut. vi. 14. After whom is the king of Israel come out 1 Sam. xxiv. 14.

One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note.

The last milk drawn in milking; strokings. [Obs.] Grose.

A taste which remains in the mouth after eating or drinking.

o as to be ready for the time when. [Archaic or Dial.] Urijah the priest made it, against King Ahaz came from Damascus. 2 Kings xvi. 11. Against the sun, in a direction contrary to that in which the sun appears to move.