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dressed; receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; courteous; sociable. An affable and courteous gentleman. Shak. His manners polite and affable. Macaulay.

In an affable manner; courteously.

uence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch. A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles.

Related by marriage; from the same source.

to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appelate court for review.

To strike or cast down; to overthrow. [Obs.] "Reassembling our afflicted powers." Milton.

A flowing to or towards; a concourse; an influx. The affluence of young nobles from hence into Spain. Wotton. There is an unusual affluence of strangers this year. Carlyle.

To impress with sudden fear; to frighten; to alarm. Dreams affright our souls. Shak. A drear and dying sound Affrights the flamens at their service quaint. Milton.

ifies resentment; marked disrespect; a purposed indignity; insult. Offering an affront to our understanding. Addison.

To pour out or upon. [R.] I first affused water upon the compressed beans. Boyle.

The act of pouring upon, or sprinkling with a liquid, as water upon a child in baptism. Specifically: (Med)

Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat.

Subsequent to and notwithstanding; as, after all our advice, you took that course.

To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.

An additional or fourth name given by the Romans, or account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, Publius Caius Scipio Africanus.

itness agreed not together. Mark xiv. 56. The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you. Sir T. Browne.

Sour. [Obs.] Shak.

nded to be struck; the line of fire; the direction of anything, as a spear, a blow, a discourse, a remark, towards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it. Each at the head leveled his deadly aim. Milton.

were good wisdom . . . that the jail were aired. Bacon. Were you but riding forth to air yourself. Shak.

watch, a clock or watch which can be so set as to ring or strike loudly at a prearranged hour, to wake from sleep, or excite attention. -- Alarm gauge, a contrivance attached to a steam boiler for showing when the pressure of steam is too high, or the water in the boiler too low. -- Alarm post, a place to which troop…