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A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account. A bill of adventure (Com.), a writing setting forth that the goods shipped are at the owner's risk.

ion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel. We may give advice, but we can not give conduct. Franklin.

The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.]

A cannon capable of being trained at very high angles for use against aircraft.

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.

Kindly inclined; zealous. [Obs.] Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat.

rofit, or without loss or too great injury; as, A affords his goods cheaper than B; a man can afford a sum yearly in charity.

pect; to insult to the face by demeanor or language; to treat with marked incivility. How can any one imagine that the fathers would have dared to affront the wife of Aurelius Addison.

American Federation of Labor.

African. -- n.

Wisdom or perception that comes after it can be of use. "After- wit comes too late when the mischief is done." L'Estrange.

A South American bird (Psophia crepitans), allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated; -- called also the gold-breasted trumpeter. Its body is about the size of the pheasant. See Trumpeter.

Having to stomach, or distinct digestive canal, as the tapeworm.

(order Amaryllidaceæ) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of…

A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) has lavender-blue flowers in dense clusters.

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

A relative whose relationship can be traced exclusively through males.

the Romans, or account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, Publius Caius Scipio Africanus.

The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positi…

A cake of wax stamped with such a figure. It is made from the remains of the paschal candles and blessed by the Pope.