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Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.

Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accomodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn. Sir W. Scott.

Growing; increasing. Shuckford.

al. [Obs.] It [is] an impossibility for any creature to adequate God in his eternity. Shelford.

e, that has been advocated. Burke. Eminent orators were engaged to advocate his cause. Mitford.

Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture.

The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.

Affording food; nourishing. [R.] "Alimonious humors." Harvey.

To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest. He was allowed about three hundred pounds a year. Macaulay.

rom Germany, characterized by overlapping plates, arranged to slide on rivets, and thus afford great flexibility.

Alternateness; alternation. [R.] Mitford.

Done out of love. [Obs.] Lay an amiable siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife. Shak.

Doubt; uncertainty. [Obs.] Shelford.

ntimask. [Obs. or R.] Performed by knights and ladies of his court In nature of an antic. Ford.

The quality of being antic. Ford.

arly one's own; peculiar qualification.[Obs.] If you can neglect Your own appropriaments. Ford.

; suitable; appropriate. They have always apt instruments. Burke. A river . . . apt to be forded by a lamb. Jer. Taylor.

The office of an archon. Mitford.

The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building.

Pertaining to the Areopagus. Mitford.