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To revoke, as a legacy, grant, etc., or to satisfy it by some other gift.

The revocation or taking away of a grant donation, legacy, or the like. Bouvier.

ther, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usually, to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day.

The management and disposal, under legal authority, of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no competent executor.

To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as, to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was admitted to bail.

The certificate of admission given in some American colleges.

Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal. When any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds. Adam Smith.

A faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing. Elegant adumbrations of sacred truth. Bp. Horsley.

Counseling to perform a specific illegal act. Wharton. Advice boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat. -- To take advice. (a) To accept advice. (b) To consult with another or others.

riginally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.]

To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another.

t, words, feelings, etc.; profusion; also, abundance of property; wealth. And old age of elegance, affluence, and ease. Coldsmith.

Relating to or practicing alchemy. Metaphysical and alchemistical legislators. Burke.

(Angling) An artificial fly with brown mottled wings, body of peacock harl, and black legs.

One of a board or body of municipal officers next in order to the mayor and having a legislative function. They may, in some cases, individually exercise some magisterial and administrative functions.

own by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been applied to certain elegant editions of English works.

The Carob, a leguminous tree of the Mediterranean region; also, its edible beans or pods, called St. John's bread.

The agglutinated seeds and husks of the legumes of a South American tree (Inga Marthæ). It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye.

Otherwise; otherwise called; -- a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson.

on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi.