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ulty of nice discernment or perception; acumen; keenness; sharpness; sensitiveness; -- applied to the senses, or the understanding. By acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or slight impressions: by acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions. Perhaps, also, he felt his professional acuteness interes…

` phrase applied to an appeal or argument addressed to the principles, interests, or passions of a man.

, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies.

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

Bringing together or towards a given point; -- a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. Opposed to abducent.

Applied to sexual zooids of hydroids, that have a saclike form and do not become free; -- opposed to phanerocodonic.

who adheres; one who follows a leader, party, or profession; a follower, or partisan; a believer in a particular faith or church.

Pertaining to, or derived from, fatty or oily substances; -- applied to certain acids obtained from fats by the action of nitric acid.

To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append. Corrections . . . should be, as remarks, adjoined by way of note. Watts.

To dispense; to serve out; to supply; execute; as, to administer relief, to administer the sacrament. [Let zephyrs] administer their tepid, genial airs. Philips. Justice was administered with an exactness and purity not before known. Macaulay.

Growing with one side adherent to a stem; -- a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals.

adiness in avoiding danger or escaping difficulty; ready in invention or execution; -- applied to persons and to acts; as, an adroit mechanic, an adroit reply. "Adroit in the application of the telescope and quadrant." Horsley. "He was adroit in intrigue." Macaulay.

To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.

r sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.

e; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons. Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve. Milton.

r the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly. To advocate the cause of thy client. Bp. Sanderson (1624). This is the only thing distinct and sensible, that has been advocated. Burke. Eminent orators were engaged to advocate his cause. Mitford.

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

rge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air. His sparkling sallies bubbled up as from aërated natural fountains. Carlyle.

That which supplies with air; esp. an apparatus used for charging mineral waters with gas and in making soda water.

elated to, or of the nature of, aërobies; as, aërobiotic plants, which live only when supplied with free oxygen.