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The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper.

Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig. So on the sea shall be set adrift. Dryden. Were from their daily labor turned adrift. Wordsworth.

Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth.

The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth.

The front edge (in direction of motion) of a supporting surface; -- contr. with following edge, which is the rear edge.

The first of two or more surfaces arranged in tandem; -- contr. with following surface, which is the rear surface.

gainst, or in a contrary direction; opposed; contrary; opposite; conflicting; as, adverse winds; an adverse party; a spirit adverse to distinctions of caste.

Pertaining to Æolus, the mythic god of the winds; pertaining to, or produced by, the wind; aërial. Viewless forms the æolian organ play. Campbell. Æolian attachment, a contrivance often attached to a pianoforte, which prolongs the vibrations, increases the

The god of the winds.

n the air; as, aërial regions or currents. "Aërial spirits." Milton. "Aërial voyages." Darwin.

Conveying or containing air; air-bearing; as, the windpipe is an aëriferous tube.

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.

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

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

Glowing; agitated, as with heat.

t, to, or from a great distance; far away; -- often used with from preceding, or off following; as, he was seen from afar; I saw him afar off. The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar. Beattie.

The southwest wind. Milton.

A blowing or breathing on; inspiration.

A breath or blast of wind.