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The ship which carries the admiral; also, the most considerable ship of a fleet. Like some mighty admiral, dark and terrible, bearing down upon his antagonist with all his canvas straining to the wind, and all his thunders roaring from his broadsides. E. Everett.

Wonderful; also, admirable. [Obs.] "Admired disorder." " Admired Miranda." Shak.

ewels. Isa. lxi. 10. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place. Goldsmith.

Attached or annexed to the glebe or estate and transferable with it. Brougham.

Having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy.

Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. Give me advantage of some brief discourse. Shak. The advantages of a close alliance. Macaulay.

In hostile opposition to; unfavorable; unpropitious; contrary to one's wishes; unfortunate; calamitous; afflictive; hurtful; as, adverse fates, adverse circumstances, things adverse. Happy were it for us all if we bore prosperity as well and wisely as we endure an adverse fortune. Southey. Adverse possession (Law), a p…

Considerable debility of the vital powers, as in typhoid fever. Dunglison.

The great wild-oat grass or other cornfield weed. Crabb.

A period of immeasurable duration; also, an emanation of the Deity. See Eon.

An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.

To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify. "To aggravate my woes." Pope. To aggravate the horrors of the scene. Prescott. The defense made by the prisioner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime. Addison.…

ing the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.

The crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), found in the tropical parts of America.

A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta, about the size of a rabbit, peculiar to South America and the West Indies. The most common species is the Dasyprocta agouti.

sbandman. The farmer is always a practitioner, the agriculturist may be a mere theorist. Crabb.

sphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable.

The Arabic definite article answering to the English the; as, Alkoran, the Koran or the Book; alchemy, the chemistry.

ement of fermented or distilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation.

California to Buenos Ayres; also, its sweet, pulpy pods. A valuable gum, resembling gum arabic, is collected from the tree in Texas and Mexico.