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into close contact or familiar intercourse. -- To work at arm's length, to work disadvantageously.

Of or pertaining to the northwestern part of France (formerly called Armorica, now Bretagne or Brittany), or to its people. -- n.

ence, study, or observation; knack; a, a man has the art of managing his business to advantage.

Free from guile, art, craft, or stratagem; characterized by simplicity and sincerity; sincere; guileless; ingenuous; honest; as, an artless mind; an artless tale. They were plain, artless men, without the least appearance of enthusiasm or credulity about them. Porteus. O, how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's e…

Something spoken aside; as, a remark made by a stageplayer which the other players are not supposed to hear.

ays vary in number and always have ambulacral grooves below. The body is starshaped or pentagonal.

as, at war; at peace; at ease; at your service; at fault; at liberty; at risk; at disadvantage.

Opposed to theology; atheistic. Bp. Montagu.

Antagonism to theology. Swift.

Affected with atrophy, as a tissue or organ; arrested in development at a very early stage; rudimentary.

To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt. My tender youth was never yet attaint With any passion of inflaming love. Shak.

The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck.

Provided with antlers, as a stag.

The stage of a disease in which the symptoms go on increasing. Dunglison.

Passing through all its stages on one host, as certain parasitic fungi; -- contrasted with heterocious.

The time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage. Dr. Preston was now entering into the autumn of the duke's favor. Fuller. Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge. Wordsworth.

Past the middle of life; in the third stage. An autumnal matron. Hawthorne. Autumnal equinox, the time when the sun crosses the equator, as it proceeds southward, or when it passes the ~ point. -- ~= point, the point of the equator intersected by the ecliptic, as the sun proceeds southward; the first point of Libra.…

To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment. O, what avails me now that honor high ! Milton.

f of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose; usable; profitable; advantageous; convertible into a resource; as, an available measure; an available candidate. Struggling to redeem, as he did, the available months and days out of so many that were unavailable. Carlyle. Having no available funds with w…

In an available manner; profitably; advantageously; efficaciously.