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to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons. Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve. Milton.

aw), a possession of real property avowedly contrary to some claim of title in another person. Abbott.

support, vindicate, or recommend publicly. To advocate the cause of thy client. Bp. Sanderson (1624). This is the only thing distinct and sensible, that has been advocated. Burke. Eminent orators were engaged to advocate his cause. Mitford.

Advowson. [Obs.] The donations or advocations of church livings. Sanderson.

One who has an advowson. Cowell.

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

ing differences of quality or property in different directions; not isotropic. Sir W. Thomson.

Eternal; everlasting. "Æonian hills." Tennyson.

Like, or from, the air; in an aërial manner. "A murmur heard aërially." Tennyson.

A club or association of persons interested in aëronautics.

An instrument, proposed by Edison, for greatly intensifying speech. It consists of a phonograph diaphragm so arranged that its action opens and closes valves, producing synchronous air blasts sufficient to operate a larger diaphragm with greater amplitude of vibration.

r Pertaining to æsthetics; versed in æsthetics; as, æsthetic studies, emotions, ideas, persons, etc. -- Æs*thet"ic*al*ly, adv.

A striving after. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

Assumed artificially; not natural. Affected coldness and indifference. Addison.

truly, waking dreams were, more or less, An old and strange affection of the house. Tennyson.

Kindly inclined; zealous. [Obs.] Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat.

To assess or reduce, as an arbitrary penalty or amercement, to a certain and reasonable sum. Amercements . . . were affeered by the judges. Blackstone.

r J. Stephen. Lancelot, my Lancelot, thou in whom I have Most joy and most affiance. Tennyson.

One who makes a contract of marriage between two persons.

To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally. Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion I. Taylor.