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otion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons. Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion. Johnson. Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actua…

Of or pertaining to Adam, or resembling him. Adamic earth, a name given to common red clay, from a notion that Adam means red earth.

A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The common European adder is the Vipera (or Pelias) berus. The puff adders of Africa are species of Clotho.

The common bistort or snakeweed (Polygonum bistorta).

To draw towards a common center or a middle line. Huxley.

r defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate. It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time. Barrow. 'Tis a needful fitness Th…

their own ministers with those of the emperor in public treaties and negotiations to the common interest of the empire. Encyc. Brit.

ne the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone.

A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone.

A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes. These parchments are supposed to have been St. Paul's adversaria. Bp. Bull.

Information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from France; -- commonly in the plural.

To supply or impregnate with common air; as, to aërate soil; to aërate water.

on; ratification; confirmation of a voidable act. This statute . . . in affirmance of the common law. Bacon.

Confirmative; ratifying; as, an act affirmative of common law.

ore; in front of; farther forward than; as, afore the windlass. Afore the mast, among the common sailors; -- a phrase used to distinguish the ship's crew from the officers.

One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.

A fungus of the genus Agaricus, of many species, of which the common mushroom is an example.

(Bot.) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.

to; to afflict; hence, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon; -- now commonly used in the passive TO be aggrieved. Aggrieved by oppression and extortion. Macaulay.

octa, about the size of a rabbit, peculiar to South America and the West Indies. The most common species is the Dasyprocta agouti.