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Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry. [Obs.] The squint-eyed Pharisees look across at all the actions of Christ. Bp. Hall.

The mechanical contrivance by means of which the impulse of the player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe. Grove. Chose in action. (Law) See Chose. -- Quantity of action (Physics), the product of the mass of a body by the space it runs through, and its velocity.…

A theatrical performer; a stageplayer. After a well graced actor leaves the stage. Shak.

A female stageplayer; a woman who acts a part.

rmances. Shak. Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is . . . by a special prayer or action, . . . given to God. Jer. Taylor.

light impressions; acting keenly on the senses; sharp; keen; intense; as, a man of acute eyesight, hearing, or feeling; acute pain or pleasure.

The twelfth month of the Hebrew ecclesiastical year, and the sixth of the civil. It corresponded nearly with March.

hy speed add wings. Milton. As easily as he can add together the ideas of two days or two years. Locke.

The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray.

s a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience). The young hero had addressed his players to him for his assistance. Dryden.

y, or closes extended parts of the body; -- opposed to abductor; as, the adductor of the eye, which turns the eye toward the nose. In the bivalve shells, the muscles which close the values of the shell are called adductor muscles. Verrill.

The form of oath or appeal. Persons who . . . made use of prayer and adjurations. Addison.

An assistant. [R.] Yelverton.

ire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape. Admired as heroes and as gods obeyed. Pope.

A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceæ, containing the pheasaut's eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.

To beautify; to dandify. I employed three good hours at least in adjusting and adonozing myself. Smollett.

Down. [Archaic & Poetic] Her hair adown her shoulders loosely lay displayed. Prior.

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

Far on in life or time. A gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles. Hawthorne. Advanced guard, a detachment of troops which precedes the march of the main body.

To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare. Yet they adventured to go back. Bunyan, Discriminations might be adventured. J. Taylor.