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An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865). [U. S.]

r manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip. Shak. To chat a while on their adventures. Dryden.

Exciting mirth; droll; laughable; as, a comical story. "Comical adventures." Dryden.

Approach; advent; manifestation; as, the coming of the train.

A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it.

A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest.

age. This method of courtship, [by which] both sides are prepared for all the matrimonial adventures that are to follow. Goldsmith.

A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States.

A myth accounting for the discovery of arts and sciences or the advent of a higher civilization, as in the Prometheus myth.

Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.

en, pencil, or graver; hence, to represent with accuracy and minuteness. See Delineation. Adventurous to delineate nature's form. Akenside.

A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress. [Colloq.] De Quincey.

enuate; to weaken. Lest these colors should be diluted and weakened by the mixture of any adventitious light. Sir I. Newton.

Misadventurous; unfortunate. [Obs.] Spenser.

A disadventure. [Obs.] Shelton.

n; modification; change; alternation. Infinite diversifications of tints may be produced. Adventurer.

correlative to or. Either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth. 1 Kings xviii. 27. Few writers hesitate to use either in what is called a triple alternative; such as, We must either stay where we are, proceed, or recede. Latham.

An enterprise; endeavor; adventure. Chaucer. In brave pursuit of chivalrous emprise. Spenser. The deeds of love and high emprise. Longfellow.

Full of daring; adventurous. [Archaic] T. Campbell.

Of or pertaining to an episode; adventitious. -- Ep`i*so"dic*al*ly, adv. Such a figure as Jacob Brattle, purely episodical though it be, is an excellent English portrait. H. James.