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Topped up; having one yardarm higher than the other.

Acres collectively; as, the acreage of a farm or a country.

From side to side; crosswise; as, with arms folded across. Shak.

Having a sharp point; armed with prickles; prickly; aculeate.

In America, the term is commonly applied to several harmless snakes, as the milk adder, puffing adder, etc.

Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honor; -- opposed to abatement. Vector addition (Geom.), that kind of addition of two lines, or vectors, AB and BC, by which their sum is regarded as the line, or vector, AC.

Incapable of doing either harm or good, as some medicines. Dunglison.

djunct to my act. Shak. Adjunct notes (Mus.), short notes between those essential to the harmony; auxiliary notes; passing notes.

t; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a standard.

imental and garrison duty. Adjutant general (a) (Mil.), the principal staff officer of an army, through whom the commanding general receives communications and issues military orders. In the U. S. army he is brigadier general. (b) (Among the Jesuits), one of a select number of fathers, who resided with the general of t…

e immediate objects of popular adoration amongst the heathens were deified human beings. Farmer.

; -- used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army; advance payment, or that made before it is due; advance proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in advance of the time of publication.

Of or pertaining to the sea, or arm of the Mediterranean sea, east of Greece. See Archipelago.

A shield or protective armor; -- applied in mythology to the shield of Jupiter which he gave to Minerva. Also fig.: A shield; a protection.

Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother.

To startle from quiet; to alarm. Smale foules a great heap That had afrayed [affrayed] me out of my sleep. Chaucer.

To impress with sudden fear; to frighten; to alarm. Dreams affright our souls. Shak. A drear and dying sound Affrights the flamens at their service quaint. Milton.

Affright; the state of being frightened; sudden fear or alarm. [Archaic] Passionate words or blows . . . fill the child's mind with terror and affrightment. Locke.

Gazing with astonishment; amazed. [Obs.] The whole army stood agazed on him. Shak.

One of a body of men appointed by the army, in Cromwell's time, to look after their interests; -- called also adjutators. Clarendon.