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The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.

Far on in life or time. A gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles. Hawthorne. Advanced guard, a detachment of troops which precedes the march of the main body.

Risk; danger; peril. [Obs.] He was in great adventure of his life. Berners.

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

h 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.

Next; later in time; subsequent; succeeding; as, an after period of life. Marshall.

To redeem. [Obs.] Wyclif.

To gainsay. [Obs.] Wyclif.

The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime. Mine age is as nothing before thee. Ps. xxxix. 5.

stocks or public funds. Vanity and agiotage are to a Parisian the oxygen and hydrogen of life. Landor.

ts agnosticism, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal Deity, a future life, etc.

The last struggle of life; death struggle.

To shudder at; to abhor; to dread; to loathe. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Without aim or purpose; as, an aimless life. -- Aim"less*ly, adv. -- Aim"less*ness, n.

holy orders when officiating at mass. It was formerly worn, at least by clerics, in daily life.

The lucern (Medicago sativa); -- so called in California, Texas, etc.

The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California.

An edible marine fish of California (Rhacochilus toxotes).

The Honey mesquite (Prosopis juliflora), a small tree found from California to Buenos Ayres; also, its sweet, pulpy pods. A valuable gum, resembling gum arabic, is collected from the tree in Texas and Mexico.

onformities. Algonkian rocks are both sedimentary and igneous. Although fossils are rare, life certainly existed in this period. -- n.