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To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn. "I shall no more advise thee." Milton.

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.

l, formed with a thin arching blade set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood.

The arrangement of the petals in a flower bud, as to folding, overlapping, etc.; prefloration. Gray. [Spelt also estivation.]

e affords the sweetest numbers. Addison. The quiet lanes . . . afford calmer retreats. Gilpin.

by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite.

Gaping, as with wonder, expectation, or eager attention. Dazzles the crowd and sets them all agape. Milton.

In a state of gasping. Coleridge.

H. Newman. Lo! where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. C. Sprague.

A heaping up; accumulation; as, aggerations of sand. [R.]

The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together. An excessive agglomeration of turrets. Warton.

Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.

To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur; as, all parties agree in the expediency of the law. If music and sweet poetry agree. Shak. Their witness agreed not together. Mark xiv. 56. The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enem…

State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council. What agreement hath the temple of God with idols 2 Cor. vi. 16. Expansion and duration have this further agreement. Locke.

In the act of groping. Mrs. Browning.

Pinched with hunger; very hungry. C. Bronté.

Helping; helpful; supplying aid. Shak.

To expose for the sake of public notice; to display ostentatiously; as, to air one's opinion. Airing a snowy hand and signet gem. Tennyson.

A vestment of white linen, reaching to the feet, an enveloping the person; -- in the Roman Catholic church, worn by those in holy orders when officiating at mass. It was formerly worn, at least by clerics, in daily life.

The process of becoming white, or developing white patches, or streaks.