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Adieu; farewell; good-by; -- chiefly used among Spanish- speaking people.

verb, or may be omitted. Both Houses declared that they could admit of no treaty with the king. Hume.

trance; reception. To gain admittance into the house. South. He desires admittance to the king. Dryden. To give admittance to a thought of fear. Shak.

To warn or notify of a fault; to reprove gently or kindly, but seriously; to exhort. "Admonish him as a brother." 2 Thess. iii. 15.

The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions. Jer. Taylor.

A kind of adoption in ancient Rome. See Arrogation.

Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt. A tall, thin man, of an adust complexion. Sir W. Scott.

The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat. He loved excitement and adventure. Macaulay.

xposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; -- applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song.

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

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

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

Consisting of air; resembling, or partaking of the nature of air. Hence: Unsubstantial; unreal.

the degree of sensation, by determining at how short a distance two impressions upon the skin can be distinguished, and thus to determine whether the condition of tactile sensibility is normal or altered.

Sensuous perception. [R.] Ruskin.

Easy to be spoken to or addressed; receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; courteous; sociable. An affable and courteous gentleman. Shak. His manners polite and affable. Macaulay.

done or is to be done; matter; concern; as, a difficult affair to manage; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public; -- often in the plural. "At the head of affairs." Junius. "A talent for affairs." Prescott.

ight, etc. , are affections of bodies. "The affections of quantity." Boyle. And, 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.

With affection; lovingly; fondly; tenderly; kindly.