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of wind and waves. Also fig. So on the sea shall be set adrift. Dryden. Were from their daily labor turned adrift. Wordsworth.

le world, and lose himself, or be cast away Luke ix. 25. To advantage one's self of, to avail one's self of. [Obs.]

publicly, esp. by a printed notice; as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing day of a vessel, a political meeting.

To summon; to call. [Obs.] Queen Katharine had privately prevailed with the pope to advoke the cause to Rome. Fuller.

Pertaining to aëronautics, or aërial sailing.

The science or art of ascending and sailing in the air, as by means of a balloon; aërial navigation; ballooning.

The state of torpidity induced by the heat and dryness of summer, as in certain snails; -- opposed to hibernation.

Executed in a workmanlike manner; ingeniously made. [R.] Bailey.

A fortress; a fortification for defense. [Obs.] Bailey.

The quality that gives an affront or offense. [R.] Bailey.

front of; farther forward than; as, afore the windlass. Afore the mast, among the common sailors; -- a phrase used to distinguish the ship's crew from the officers.

he seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of the ship, to attend the after-sails. Totten.

n opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in contact with; upon; as, hail beats against the roof.

Failure of the due secretion of milk after childbirth.

son who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant. The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned to the tameness of the sufferer. Ames.

A illiterate person. [Obs.] Bailey.

Agriculture. [Obs.] Bailey.

A term used in hailing; as, "Ship ahoy."

With the sails furled, and the helm lashed alee; -- applied to ships in a storm. See Hull, n.

shing, or purifying; to ventilate; as, to air a room. It were good wisdom . . . that the jail were aired. Bacon. Were you but riding forth to air yourself. Shak.