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Involving or comprising action; active. [Obs.] Her walking and other actual performances. Shak. Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is . . . by a special prayer or action, . . . given to God. Jer. Taylor.

To carry out in practice; to perform. [Obs.] "To actuate what you command." Jer. Taylor.

To perform the arithmetical operation of addition; as, he adds rapidly.

To perform the office of administrator; to act officially; as, A administers upon the estate of B.

Counseling to perform a specific illegal act. Wharton. Advice boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat. -- To take advice. (a) To accept advice. (b) To consult with another or others.

e air, or atmosphere; inhabiting or frequenting the air; produced by or found in the air; performed in the air; as, aërial regions or currents. "Aërial spirits." Milton. "Aërial voyages." Darwin.

A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.

A direction for the performer to return and recommence from the sign

To perform by algebra; to reduce to algebraic form.

Having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.

A substitute; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.

in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear.

The process used to render glass, iron, etc., less brittle, performed by allowing them to cool very gradually from a high heat.

Performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year; as, the annual motion of the earth. A thousand pound a year, annual support. Shak.

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

hat system of surgical practice which insists upon a systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the dressing of wounds.

Specifically: An instinctive inclination or propensity in animals to perform certain actions, as in the young to suck, in aquatic fowls to enter into water and to swim; the tendency of an organized body to seek what satisfies the wants of its organism. These lacteals have mouths, and by animal selection or appetency th…

Of or performance to Argos, the capital of Argolis in Greece. -- n.

A system of rules serving to facilitate the performance of certain actions; a system of principles and rules for attaining a desired end; method of doing well some special work; -- often contradistinguished from science or speculative principles; as, the art of building or engraving; the art of war; the art of navigati…

Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill. [Archaic] "Artful strains." "Artful terms." Milton.