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own ministers with those of the emperor in public treaties and negotiations to the common interest of the empire. Encyc. Brit.

; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests.

Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen). [Obs.] And with advantage means to pay thy love. Shak. Advantage ground, vantage ground. [R.] Clarendon. -- To have the advantage of (any one), to have a personal knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge. "You have the adv…

A club or association of persons interested in aëronautics.

One of a body of men appointed by the army, in Cromwell's time, to look after their interests; -- called also adjutators. Clarendon.

fendant beseeches and claims assistance from some one who has a further or more permanent interest in the matter in suit. -- To pray in aid, to beseech and claim such assistance.

The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between 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.…

Regard for others, both natural and moral; devotion to the interests of others; brotherly kindness; -- opposed to egoism or selfishness. [Recent] J. S. Mill.

Ambiguous discourse; amphibology. If it oracle contrary to our interest or humor, we will create an amphiboly, a double meaning where there is none. Whitlock.

ed confederation known as the Amphictyonic Council. Its object was to maintain the common interests of Greece.

Compound interest. [R.] Bouvier.

A particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life.

Opposed to the Americans, their aims, or interests, or to the genius of American institutions. Marshall.

ness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion. "The apathy of despair." Macaulay. A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led him . . . to leave events to take their own course. Prescott. According to the Stoics,…

Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris.

armony. Mendelssohn wants the ariose beauty of Handel; vocal melody is not his forte; the interest of his airs harmonic. Foreign Quart. Rev.

ssion. (Often approaching though in meaning). We wish, however, to avail ourselves of the interest, transient as it may be, which this work has excited. Macaulay.

A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.

A transfer of title or interest by writing, as of lease, bond, note, or bill of exchange; a transfer of the whole of some particular estate or interest in lands.

An assigner; a person who assigns or transfers an interest; as, the assignor of a debt or other chose in action.