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onor." Sheridan. -- To take advantage of, to profit by; (often used in a bad sense) to overreach, to outwit.

Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation. Advabtageous comparison with any other country. Prescott. You see . . . of what use a good reputation is, and how swift and advantageous a harbinger it is, wherever one goe…

upervenient; foreign. To things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. Burke.

Of or pertaining to the sea, or arm of the Mediterranean sea, east of Greece. See Archipelago.

To make low or humble. [Obs.] Spenser. Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth. Jer. Taylor.

Alarm; terror; fright. [Obs.] Spenser.

Sudden and great fear; terror. It expresses a stronger impression than fear, or apprehension, perhaps less than terror. He looks behind him with affright, and forward with despair. Goldsmith.

Terrifying; frightful. -- Af*fright"ful*ly, adv. [Archaic] Bugbears or affrightful apparitions. Cudworth.

dden fear or alarm. [Archaic] Passionate words or blows . . . fill the child's mind with terror and affrightment. Locke.

To affright; to terrify. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

The quality of being aged; oldness. Custom without truth is but agedness of error. Milton.

involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.

Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror. Aghast he waked; and, starting from his bed, Cold sweat in clammy drops his limbs o'erspread. Dryden. The commissioners read and stood aghast. Macaulay.

An agriculturist (which is the preferred form.)

To shudder with terror; to tremble with fear. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise. Alarm and resentment spread throughout the camp. Macaulay.

A soft ornamental terra-cotta pottery, sold in the biscuit state for decorating.

Mackerel family, esp. Orcynus alalonga. One species (Orcynus thynnus), common in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, is called in New England the horse mackerel; the tunny. [Written also albacore.]

ula); Alder buckthorn. (b) An American species of holly (Ilex verticillata), bearing red berries.