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An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.

See Astrictory.

A servile or hypocritical flatterer. Carlyle.

Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address. A mere rant of adulatory freedom. Burke.

One who adulterates or corrupts. [R.] Cudworth.

Having power to advise; containing advice; as, an advisory council; their opinion is merely advisory. The General Association has a general advisory superintendence over all the ministers and churches. Trumbull.

Of or pertaining to an advocate. [R.]

A gigantic bird found fossil in Madagascar.

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

Having the form or nature of air, or of an elastic fluid; gaseous. Hence fig.: Unreal.

One who affeers. Cowell.

Giving affirmation; assertive; affirmative. Massey.

To reënforce; to strengthen. Hallam.

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

See Afforcement. [Obs.]

To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords fruit; the sea affords an abundant supply of fish.

That may be afforded.

Anything given as a help; bestowal. [Obs.]

To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country.

The act of converting into forest or woodland. Blackstone.