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ce of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand. You can produce acquittances For such a sum, from special officers. Shak.

Dancing. Lowell.

Admiration. [Obs.] Spenser.

Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception. To gain admittance into the house. South. He desires admittance to the king. Dryden. To give admittance to a thought of fear. Shak.

To raise; to elevate. [Archaic] They . . . advanced their eyelids. Shak.

In the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers.

The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning. In heaven . . . every one (so well they love each other) rejoiceth and hath his part in each other's advancement. Sir T. More. True religion . . . propose…

One who advances; a promoter.

Trust; reliance; faith; confidence. Such feelings promptly yielded to his habitual affiance in the divine love. Sir J. Stephen. Lancelot, my Lancelot, thou in whom I have Most joy and most affiance. Tennyson.

One who makes a contract of marriage between two persons.

Confirmation; ratification; confirmation of a voidable act. This statute . . . in affirmance of the common law. Bacon.

Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance. [Archaic]

Aid. [R.] Aidance 'gainst the enemy. Shak.

Allegation. [Obs.]

Devotion; loyalty; as, allegiance to science.

etween families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state; an alliance between France and England.

of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. Without the king's will or the state's allowance. Shak.

Allurement. [R.]

d intended to succor the wounded as soon as possible. Often used adjectively; as, an ambulance wagon; ambulance stretcher; ambulance corps.

Behavior; bearing. [Obs.] Spenser.