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suring and recording the variations in the actinic or chemical force of rays of light. Nichol.

A shareholder in joint-stock company. [Obs.]

mprising 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.

ways in the right, To your decays adapts my sight. Swift. Appeals adapted to his [man's] whole nature. Angus. Streets ill adapted for the residence of wealthy persons. Macaulay.

To hold, be attached, or devoted; to remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity of faith, principle, or opinion; as, men adhere to a party, a cause, a leader, a church.

Relating to procedure. "The whole English law, substantive and adjective." Macaulay.

To regard or hold; to judge; to deem. He adjudged him unworthy of his friendship. Knolles.

The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. Bouvier.

-- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts. An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament. Gray.

advantaged his adversaries against him. Fuller. What is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away Luke ix. 25. To advantage one's self of, to avail one's self of. [Obs.]

The act of advocating or pleading; plea; advocacy. [Archaic] The holy Jesus . . . sits in heaven in a perpetual advocation for us. Jer. Taylor.

A shield or protective armor; -- applied in mythology to the shield of Jupiter which he gave to Minerva. Also fig.: A shield; a protection.

In the old Norse mythology, the gods Odin, Thor, Loki, Balder, Frigg, and the others. Their home was called Asgard.

Disposed; inclined. [Obs.] Affectionated to the people. Holinshed.

To refine. [Obs.] Holland.

tion; to meet or encounter face to face. [Obs.] All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant. Holland. That he, as 't were by accident, may here Affront Ophelia. Shak.

The act of pouring water or other fluid on the whole or a part of the body, as a remedy in disease. Dunglison.

r their intrinsic value. Bacon. After all, when everything has been considered; upon the whole. -- After (with the same noun preceding and following), as, wave after wave, day after day, several or many (waves, etc.) successively. -- One after another, successively. -- To be after, to be in pursuit of in order to re…

cond moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen. Holland.

Gazing with astonishment; amazed. [Obs.] The whole army stood agazed on him. Shak.