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Attached or annexed to the glebe or estate and transferable with it. Brougham.

ithout 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.

Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment.

To accede, or come (to); to be added to something or become a part of it, though not essential. [R.] Where no act of the will advenes as a coefficient. Coleridge.

y of a closed vessel (as a globe or cylinder) with one or more projecting bent tubes, through which steam is made to pass from the vessel, causing it to revolve. [Written also eolipile.]

ate (the blood) by respiration; to arterialize. Aërated bread, bread raised by charging dough with carbonic acid gas, instead of generating the gas in the dough by fermentation.

A plane or arched surface for sustaining bodies by its movement through the air; a spread wing, as of a bird.

a small plane for experiments on flying, which floats in the air only when propelled through it.

To dispose or incline. Men whom they thought best affected to religion and their country's liberty. Milton.

to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appelate court for review.

An abundant supply, as of thought, words, feelings, etc.; profusion; also, abundance of property; wealth. And old age of elegance, affluence, and ease. Coldsmith.

ces be injurious; -- with an auxiliary, as can, could, might, etc.; to be able or rich enough. The merchant can afford to trade for smaller profits. Hamilton. He could afford to suffer With those whom he saw suffer. Wordsworth.

juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses.

To please. [Obs.] Each one sought his lady to aggrate. Spenser.

A relative whose relationship can be traced exclusively through males.

evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism.

In eager desire; eager; astir. All agog to dash through thick and thin. Cowper.

ing an angle. Agonic line (Physics), an imaginary line on the earth's surface passing through those places where the magnetic needle points to the true north; the line of no magnetic variation. There is one such line in the Western hemisphere, and another in the Eastern hemisphere.

Air in motion; a light breeze; a gentle wind. Let vernal airs through trembling osiers play. Pope.

A path through the air made easy for aërial navigation by steady winds.