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To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests.

Advice; counsel; suggestion; also, a dispatch or advice boat. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

in Edinburgh. -- Lord advocate (Scot.), the public prosecutor of crimes, and principal crown lawyer. -- Judge advocate. See under Judge.

Growing, forming, or existing in the air, as opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as, aërial rootlets, aërial plants. Gray.

Growing or thriving only in the presence of oxygen; also, pertaining to, or induced by, aërobies; as, aërobic fermentation. -- A`ër*o"bic*al*ly (#), adv.

Microörganisms which live in contact with the air and need oxygen for their growth; as the microbacteria which form on the surface of putrefactive fluids.

A plant growing entirely in the air, and receiving its nourishment from it; an air plant or epiphyte.

To strike or cast down; to overthrow. [Obs.] "Reassembling our afflicted powers." Milton.

The act of flowing towards; afflux. Sir T. Browne.

Flowing. Their founts aflow with tears. R. Browning.

A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.

The grass that grows after the first crop has been mown; aftermath.

A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen. Holland.

Gaping, as with wonder, expectation, or eager attention. Dazzles the crowd and sets them all agape. Milton.

An old name for severwal species of Polyporus, corky fungi growing on decaying wood.

To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age; as, he grew fat as he aged. They live one hundred and thirty years, and never age for all that. Holland. I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-colored, hair here and there. Landor.

To give pain or sorrow to; to afflict; hence, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon; -- now commonly used in the passive TO be aggrieved. Aggrieved by oppression and extortion. Macaulay.

Wild; -- said of plants growing in the fields.

Mark xiv. 56. The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you. Sir T. Browne.

lowed by to and rarely by with. See Agreeable, 4. The effect of which is, that marriages grow less frequent, agreeably to the maxim above laid down. Paley.