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To defile by adultery. [Obs.] Milton.

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.

Hostile. [R.] Southey.

In hostile opposition to; unfavorable; unpropitious; contrary to one's wishes; unfortunate; calamitous; afflictive; hurtful; as, adverse fates, adverse circumstances, things adverse. Happy were it for us all if we bore prosperity as well and wisely as we endure an adverse fortune. Southey. Adverse possession (Law), a p…

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

To summon; to call. [Obs.] Queen Katharine had privately prevailed with the pope to advoke the cause to Rome. Fuller.

Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.]

ns upon the skin can be distinguished, and thus to determine whether the condition of tactile sensibility is normal or altered.

Executed in a workmanlike manner; ingeniously made. [R.] Bailey.

A fortress; a fortification for defense. [Obs.] Bailey.

Made friends; reconciled. [Obs.] "Deadly foes . . . affriended." Spenser.

ce in defiance; to confront; as, to confront; as, to affront death; hence, to meet in hostile encounter. [Archaic]

The quality that gives an affront or offense. [R.] Bailey.

On foot. We 'll walk afoot a while. Shak.

rehension; in fear; apprehensive. [Afraid comes after the noun it limits.] "Back they recoiled, afraid." Milton.

nterposed between it and the clause. After I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee. Matt. xxvi. 32.

; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass. Where he builds the agglomerated pile. Cowper.

The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness of motion; as, strength and agility of body. They . . . trust to the agility of their wit. Bacon. Wheeling with the agility of a hawk. Sir W. Scott.

A illiterate person. [Obs.] Bailey.

To make harmonious; to reconcile or make friends. [Obs.] Spenser.