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To determine in the exercise of judicial power; to decide or award judicially; to adjudicate; as, the case was adjudged in the November term.

One who adjudicates.

The certificate of admission given in some American colleges.

To give information or notice to; to inform; -- with of before the thing communicated; as, we were advised of the risk. To advise one's self, to bethink one's self; to take counsel with one's self; to reflect; to consider. [Obs.] Bid thy master well advise himself. Shak.

Of or pertaining to an advocate. [R.]

A medical certificate that a student is ill.

To fix or fasten in any way; to attach physically. Should they [caterpillars] affix them to the leaves of a plant improper for their food. Ray.

A South American bird (Psophia crepitans), allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated; -- called also the gold-breasted trumpeter. Its body is about the size of the pheasant. See Trumpeter.

ized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.

Peculiar appearance; apparent character; semblance; manner; style. It was communicated with the air of a secret. Pope.

Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful; as, airy music.

A mineral of the feldspar family, triclinic in crystallization, and in composition a silicate of alumina and soda. It is a common constituent of granite and of various igneous rocks. See Feldspar.

A small South American dog, domesticated by the aborigines.

n instrument for determining the strength of spirits, with a scale graduated so as to indicate the percentage of pure alcohol, either by weight or volume. It is usually a form of hydrometer with a special scale.

To render alkaline; to communicate the properties of an alkali to.

our minims, to measure, and sung faster like four crotchets; in quick common time; -- indicated in the time signature by

A silicate containing a large amount of cerium. It is usually black in color, opaque, and is related to epidote in form and composition.

A college or seminary where one is educated.

nimal of Peru (Lama paco), having long, fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of the llama.

mnar structure. The color varies from white to gray, green, brown, and black. It is a silicate of magnesium and calcium, with usually aluminium and iron. Some common varieties are tremolite, actinolite, asbestus, edenite, hornblende (the last name being also used as a general term for the whole species). Amphibole is a…