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ive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.; -- followed by to or with. Affiliated societies, societies connected with a central society, or with each other.

Related by marriage; from the same source.

Joined in affinity or by any tie. [Obs.] "All affined and kin." Shak.

Closely connected, as by affinity.

Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -- in contradistinction to consanguinity, or relationship by blood; -- followed by with, to, or between. Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh. 1 Kings iii. 1.

, before an authorized magistrate or tribunal, under the penalties of perjury; to testify by affirmation.

Capable of being affirmed, asserted, or declared; -- followed by of; as, an attribute affirmable of every just man.

That which is asserted; an assertion; a positive as, an affirmation, by the vender, of title to property sold, or of its quality.

Positive; dogmatic. [Obs.] J. Taylor. Lysicles was a little by the affirmative air of Crito. Berkeley.

ce to face. [Obs.] All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant. Holland. That he, as 't were by accident, may here Affront Ophelia. Shak.

ical American plant (Tagetes erecta). -- African oak or African teak, a timber furnished by Oldfieldia Africana, used in ship building. African violet African-American, a United States citizen of African descent.

The impression of a vivid sensation retained by the retina of the eye after the cause has been removed; also extended to impressions left of tones, smells, etc.

Characterized by afterwit; slow-witted. Tyndale.

te to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale.

A soft, resinous wood (Aquilaria Agallocha) of highly aromatic smell, burnt by the orientals as a perfume. It is called also agalwood and aloes wood. The name is also given to some other species.

A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite.

A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby.

Characterized by sterility; infecund.

One who acts for, or in the place of, another, by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.

A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; -- distinguished from conglomerate.