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Set or turned back to back.

To sweeten; to soothe. [Obs.] Bacon.

Administrator. [Obs.] Bacon.

To burn up. [Obs.] Bacon.

Settlement on a wife, or jointure. [Obs.] Bacon.

A thing or person coming from without; an immigrant. [R.] Bacon.

able occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life. Bacon.

Opposition; contrariety. [Obs.] Wyclif. Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Bacon.

An adulteress. [Obs.] Bacon.

Adultery. [Obs.] Bacon.

rganisms which live in contact with the air and need oxygen for their growth; as the microbacteria which form on the surface of putrefactive fluids.

An apparatus designed for collecting spores, germs, bacteria, etc., suspended in the air.

The positive or negative stimulus exerted by oxygen on aërobic and anaërobic bacteria. -- A`ër*o*tac"tic (#), a.

Strongly inclined; -- with to. [Obs.] Bacon.

tion; confirmation of a voidable act. This statute . . . in affirmance of the common law. Bacon.

Shamelessly. [Obs.] Bacon.

Level with the ground; flat. [Obs.] Bacon.

provided; -- opposed to behindhand. [Archaic or Dial.] Aforehand in all matters of power. Bacon.

th fear or apprehension; in fear; apprehensive. [Afraid comes after the noun it limits.] "Back they recoiled, afraid." Milton.

reatness of kingdoms according to bulk and currency, and not after their intrinsic value. Bacon. After all, when everything has been considered; upon the whole. -- After (with the same noun preceding and following), as, wave after wave, day after day, several or many (waves, etc.) successively. -- One after another,…