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Adieu; farewell; good-by; -- chiefly used among Spanish- speaking people.

use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually. For he does neither affect company, nor is he fit for Shak. Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank, nor court that of the great. Hazlitt.

ard and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural what is natural. Locke.

Companionship; acquaintance. [Obs.] About forty years past, I began a happy affinity with William Cranmer. Burton.

members of the council. What agreement hath the temple of God with idols 2 Cor. vi. 16. Expansion and duration have this further agreement. Locke.

A strong alcoholic drink, especially pulque. [Mexico and Spanish America.]

r race inhabiting Yesso, the Kooril Islands etc., in the northern part of the empire of Japan, by some supposed to have been the progenitors of the Japanese. The Ainos are stout and short, with hairy bodies.

In an airy manner; lightly; gaily; jauntily; fippantly.

Light of heart; vivacious; sprightly; flippant; superficial. "Merry and airy." Jer. Taylor.

A commander of a castle or fortress among the Spaniards, Portuguese, and Moors.

A magistrate or judge in Spain and in Spanish America, etc. Prescott.

An imaginary art which aimed to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It led the way to modern chemistry.

A pot companion. [Obs.]

An instrument for determining the expansive properties, or quality, of gluten in flour. Knight.

Pertaining to expansions of the ethmoid bone or

Pertaining to expansions of the nasal bone or cartilage.

Relating to expansions of the nasal septum.

Am eagle without beak or feet, with expanded wings. Burke.

An allotment or apportionment; as, an allocation of shares in a company. The allocation of the particular portions of Palestine to its successive inhabitants. A. R. Stanley.

A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness. [R.] Bp. Montagu.