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To lie or be next, or in contact; to be contiguous; as, the houses adjoin. When one man's land adjoins to another's. Blackstone.

A process by which land is attached security or in satisfaction of a debt.

The building in which the lords of the admiralty, in England, transact business.

hing possessed of wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman, of a landscape, of virtue.

nce; to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape. Admired as heroes and as gods obeyed. Pope.

The reducing or lands or tenements to mortmain. See Mortmain.

To refine. [Obs.] Holland.

The act of converting into forest or woodland. Blackstone.

n; to meet or encounter face to face. [Obs.] All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant. Holland. That he, as 't were by accident, may here Affront Ophelia. Shak.

d moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen. Holland.

A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby.

ew fat as he aged. They live one hundred and thirty years, and never age for all that. Holland. I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-colored, hair here and there. Landor.

(Anat.) Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands.

Activity; powerful agency. [Obs.] The agility of the sun's fiery heat. Holland.

s or public funds. Vanity and agiotage are to a Parisian the oxygen and hydrogen of life. Landor.

tle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.

A charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes.

In a glow; glowing; as, cheeks aglow; the landscape all aglow.

Grouped together; as, the agminated glands of Peyer in the small intestine.

Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former. Landor.