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Tending to affect; affecting. [Obs.] Burnet.

To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too great injury; as, A affords his goods cheaper than B; a man can afford a sum yearly in charity.

Tending to affront or offend; offensive; abusive. How affrontive it is to despise mercy. South.

Uniting, as glue; causing, or tending to cause, adhesion. -- n.

Pertaining to agglutination; tending to unite, or having power to cause adhesion; adhesive.

Tending to aggravate. Ag*gres"sive*ly, adv. -- Ag*gres"sive*ness, n. No aggressive movement was made. Macaulay.

Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation. -- Ag*gres"sive*ly, adv. -- Ag*gres"sive*ness, n.

Tending to agitate.

Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory contract. Bouvier.

utritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances. Alimentary canal, the entire channel, extending from the mouth to the anus, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the useless parts ejected.

Tending to the properties of an alkali; slightly alkaline.

urge as a reason, plea, or excuse; as, he refused to lend, alleging a resolution against lending.

Pertaining to or designating the humid division of the Transition zone extending across the northern United States from New England to eastern Dakota, and including also most of Pennsylvania and the mountainous region as far south as northern Georgia.

Tending to alleviate. -- n.

Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health. Burton.

The mixing or blending of different elements, races, societies, etc.; also, the result of such combination or blending; a homogeneous union. Macaulay.

Tending to cause abortion.

Tending to ameliorate; producing amelioration or improvement; as, ameliorative remedies, efforts.

Extending over all the zones, from the tropics to the polar zones inclusive.

Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc.