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Inflamed or scorched; fiery. "The Libyan air adust." Milton.

ostile opposition to; unfavorable; unpropitious; contrary to one's wishes; unfortunate; calamitous; afflictive; hurtful; as, adverse fates, adverse circumstances, things adverse. Happy were it for us all if we bore prosperity as well and wisely as we endure an adverse fortune. Southey. Adverse possession (Law), a posse…

o ideas, or ideas affixed to things; to affix a stigma to a person; to affix ridicule or blame to any one.

To reënforce; to strengthen. Hallam.

A reënforcement; a strengthening. Hallam.

ighten; to alarm. Dreams affright our souls. Shak. A drear and dying sound Affrights the flamens at their service quaint. Milton.

century; the period of one hundred years. Fleury . . . apologizes for these five ages. Hallam.

To make appear great or greater; to exalt. Lamb.

rinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.

roversy; unprovoked attack; assault; as, a war of aggression. "Aggressions of power." Hallam

To grieve; to lament. [Obs.]

ng signs of terror or horror. Aghast he waked; and, starting from his bed, Cold sweat in clammy drops his limbs o'erspread. Dryden. The commissioners read and stood aghast. Macaulay.

An inflammation or sore under or around the nail; also, a hangnail.

A figure of a lamb bearing a cross or flag.

The Scythian lamb, a kind of woolly-skinned rootstock. See Barometz.

An exclamation, expressive of surprise, pity, complaint, entreaty, contempt, threatening, delight, triumph, etc., according to the manner of utterance.

An exclamation expressing, by different intonations, triumph, mixed with derision or irony, or simple surprise.

An exclamation to call one's attention; hem.

Help; succor; assistance; relief. An unconstitutional mode of obtaining aid. Hallam.

An exclamation expressive of sorrow. [Archaic. or Poet.] Shak.