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

The act of equalizing; act or result of making adequate; an equivalent. [Obs.] Bp. Barlow.

The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions. Jer. Taylor.

ich supplies with air; esp. an apparatus used for charging mineral waters with gas and in making soda water.

The act of making free; enfranchisement. [R.]

Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances.

The act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used 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.

Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation. -- Ag*gres"sive*ly, adv. -- Ag*gres"sive*ness, n.

The quality of being, or making one's self, agreeable; agreeableness. Thackeray.

Charcoal prepared for making powder.

The act or process of making white. [Obs.]

leak, a small European fish having scales of a peculiarly silvery color which are used in making artificial pearls.

A plant (Macrochloa tenacissima) of North Africa; also, its fiber, used in paper making.

mit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement. Allowing still for the different ways of making it. Addison. To allow of, to permit; to admit. Shak.

t of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth. After making the largest allowance for fraud. Macaulay.

The act of altering or making different. Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. Hooker.

Of or pertaining to a lover or to love making; amatory; as, amatorial verses.

ndian fiber plant (Hibiscus cannabinus), or its fiber, which is used throughout India for making ropes, cordage, and a coarse canvas and sackcloth; --called also brown Indian hemp.

The act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration. "Amelioration of human affairs." J. S. Mill.

Conjoined, or associated with, or making part of the number of; in the number or class of. Blessed art thou among women. Luke i. 28.