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A helper or assistant. [Archaic] Drayton.

To regard with wonder or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at. [Archaic] Examples rather to be admired than imitated. Fuller.

From a higher to a lower situation; downward; down, to or on the ground. [Archaic] "Thrice did she sink adown." Spenser.

To raise; to elevate. [Archaic] They . . . advanced their eyelids. Shak.

en in his wrinkles. Hawthorne. Advanced guard, a detachment of troops which precedes the march of the main body.

To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit. The truth is, the archbishop's own stiffness and averseness to comply with the court designs, advantaged his adversaries against him. Fuller. What is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away Luke ix. 25. To ad…

of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes. These parchments are supposed to have been St. Paul's adversaria. Bp. Bull.

Opposed; opposite; adverse; antagonistic. [Archaic] Bp. King.

en followed by of before the subject of information; as, to advertise a man of his loss. [Archaic] I will advertise thee what this people shall do. Num. xxiv. 14.

The act of informing or notifying; notification. [Archaic] An advertisement of danger. Bp. Burnet.

Counsel; advise; information. [Archaic] And mused awhile, waking advisement takes of what had passed in sleep. Daniel.

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

A carpenter's or cooper's tool, formed with a thin arching blade set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood.

ded by e. For most words found with this initial combination, the reader will therefore search under the letter E.

Of or pertaining to the sea, or arm of the Mediterranean sea, east of Greece. See Archipelago.

Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls.

A plane or arched surface for sustaining bodies by its movement through the air; a spread wing, as of a bird.

Disposed. [Archaic] Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10.

To frighten. [Archaic] "Fit tales . . . to affrighten babes." Southey.

One who frightens. [Archaic]