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Risk of injury, destruction, or loss by the sea, or while at sea.

wers in spikes. An Arabian species (T. mannifera) is the source of one kind of manna. Tamarisk salt tree, an East Indian tree (Tamarix orientalis) which produces an incrustation of salt.

A figure composed of three branches, usually curved, radiating from a center, as the figure composed of three human legs, with bent knees, which has long been used as a badge or symbol of Sicily and of the Isle of Man.

Brisk; lively; as, an active demand for corn.

In an active manner; nimbly; briskly; energetically; also, by one's own action; voluntarily, not passively.

an insurance company; one whose profession it is to calculate for insurance companies the risks and premiums for life, fire, and other insurances.

Risk; danger; peril. [Obs.] He was in great adventure of his life. Berners.

Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome. -- Ad*ven"ture*some*ness, n.

Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; -- applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song.

otice to; to inform; -- with of before the thing communicated; as, we were advised of the risk. To advise one's self, to bethink one's self; to take counsel with one's self; to reflect; to consider. [Obs.] Bid thy master well advise himself. Shak.

Brisk; joyously active; lively. 'T were well if we were a little more alacrious. Hammond.

With alacrity; briskly.

A cheerful readiness, willingness, or promptitude; joyous activity; briskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced with alacrity to meet the enemy. I have not that alacrity of spirit, Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have. Shak.

Brisk; nimble; moving with celerity. An alert young fellow. Addison.

The quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.

Sprightly; lively; brisk. Richardson.

Brisk, lively. -- n.

The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness; as, he recited the story with great animation. Suspended animation, temporary suspension of the vital functions, as in persons nearly drowned.

Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried. [Obs.] Through many hard assays which did betide. Spenser.

An asterisk, or mark of reference. [R.]