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To please; to gratify. [Archaic] B. Jonson. Above all thy rarities, old Oxenford, what do most arride and solace me are thy repositories of moldering learning. Lamb.

Prospect; outlook. [Obs.] This town affords a good aspect toward the hill from whence we descended. Evelyn.

[Archaic] Your rhymes assassinate our fame. Dryden. Such usage as your honorable lords Afford me, assassinated and betrayed. Milton.

To agree; to be in accordance; to be adapted; to suit; to fall into a class or place. Mitford.

Public disgrace or stigma; infamy; loss of civil rights. Mitford.

To unite in making. [Obs. & R.] The four elements . . . have atoned A noble league. Ford.

At Oxford, England, a member of a hall, distinguished from a collegian. Chalmers.

Wrongly. Ford.

admitted to bail, upon bond with sureties; -- used of persons. "He's bailable, I'm sure." Ford.

also, the charges for them; -- only in the pl., except when used adjectively. [Univ. of Oxford, Eng.]

A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge. Wright.

To afford; to be to ; to supply with. bear him company. Pope.

ound and beholding to the right reverend father. Robynson (More's Utopia). So much hath Oxford been beholding to her nephews, or sister's children. Fuller.

A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly. Mitford.

Twofold; double. [R.] "Binal revenge, all this." Ford.

ch an average block, comprising 282 houses and covering nine acres of ground, exists in Oxford Street. Lond. Quart. Rev.

A variety of clay ironstone, in Staffordshire, England, used for making tools.

A prison; -- originally the name of the old north gate in Oxford, which was used as a prison. [Eng.] Latimer.

Of or pertaining to Sir Thomas Bodley, or to the celebrated library at Oxford, founded by him in the sixteenth century.

ear the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food.