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The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture. The shameless adulteration of the coin. Prescott.

One who adulterates or corrupts. [R.] Cudworth.

To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth. Both in the vastness and the richness of the visible universe the invisible God is adumbrated. L. Taylor.

The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth.

Faintly representing; typical. Carlyle.

A uniting; union. Jer. Taylor.

Expressing contrariety, opposition, or antithesis; as, an adversative conjunction (but, however, yet, etc. ); an adversative force. -- Ad*ver"sa*tive*ly, adv.

Having opposite leaves, as plants which have the leaves so arranged on the stem.

One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth.

Office or duty of an advocate.

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

Of or pertaining to an advocate. [R.]

A medical certificate that a student is ill.

carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air. His sparkling sallies bubbled up as from aërated natural fountains. Carlyle.

Exposure to the free action of the air; airing; as, aëration of soil, of spawn, etc.

That which supplies with air; esp. an apparatus used for charging mineral waters with gas and in making soda water.

The act of combining air with another substance, or the state of being filled with air.

A form of hydro-aëroplane; a flying boat.

A dirigible balloon.

A balloon.