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Tending to add; making some addition. [R.] Arbuthnot.

Added; additional. Parkhurst.

By way of addition or adjunct; in connection with.

Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious. "Adscititious evidence." Bowring. -- Ad`sci*ti"tious*ly, adv.

Additional signification. [R.] Tooke.

To denote additionally. [R.] Tooke.

An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods.

Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign. To things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. Burke.

The act of producing in addition. [Obs.] T. Stanley.

To bring, or tend to bring, to a uniform grade, or slope, by addition of material; as, streams aggrade their beds by depositing sediment.

d of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.

An additional or fourth name given by the Romans, or account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, Publius Caius Scipio Africanus.

An intoxicating liquor made from an infusion of malt by fermentation and the addition of a bitter, usually hops.

To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; esp. to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage.

In addition; besides; as well; further; too. Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven . . . for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Matt. vi. 20.

To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of. Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator. Dryden.

A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence.

Something annexed or appended; as, an additional stipulation to a writing, a subsidiary building to a main building; a wing.

Addition to a former number. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak.