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e act of informing or notifying; notification. [Archaic] An advertisement of danger. Bp. Burnet.

Tending to affect; affecting. [Obs.] Burnet.

ant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish; as, a good life affords consolation in old age. His tuneful Muse affords the sweetest numbers. Addison. The quiet lanes . . . afford calmer retreats. Gilpin.

On a level. The bank is . . . aflush with the sea. Swinburne.

d, a tropical American plant (Tagetes erecta). -- African oak or African teak, a timber furnished by Oldfieldia Africana, used in ship building. African violet African-American, a United States citizen of African descent.

In return, back; as, bring us word again.

A soft, resinous wood (Aquilaria Agallocha) of highly aromatic smell, burnt by the orientals as a perfume. It is called also agalwood and aloes wood. The name is also given to some other species.

. -- Ag`a*mo*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv. All known agamogenetic processes end in a complete return to the primitive stock. Huxley.

sed by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.; -- so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.

Aside; askew. [Scotch] Burns.

A surname. [R.] Minsheu.

times charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism.

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

Perhaps; possibly. [Scotch] Burns.

To support, either by furnishing strength or means in coöperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist. You speedy helpers . . . Appear and aid me in this enterprise. Shak.

Furnished with an aisle or aisles.

Oat. [Scot.] Burns.

Slightly turned or opened; as, the door was standing ajar.

With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward. "With one arm akimbo." Irving.

A direction for the performer to return and recommence from the sign