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The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state; an alliance between France and England.…

Flying high. [Obs.] Blount.

A lying in a wood, concealed, for the purpose of attacking an enemy by surprise. Hence: A lying in wait, and concealed in any situation, for a like purpose; a snare laid for an enemy; an ambush.

One lying in ambush.

by supplying deficiencies;

Supplying amendment; corrective; emendatory. Bancroft.

A narrow-necked vessel having two handles and bellying out like a jug.

Founded on, or of the nature of, analogy; expressing or implying analogy. When a country which has sent out colonies is termed the mother country, the expression is analogical. J. S. Mill.

In the balk-line game, any of eight spaces, 7 inches by 3½, lying along a cushion and bisected transversely by a balk line. Object balls in an anchor space are treated as in balk.

The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor.

The act of applying; application; [Obs.] subservience. Shak.

The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.

Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.

Having the property of applying; applicative; practical. -- n.

To busy; to keep at work; to ply. [Obs.] She was skillful in applying his "humors." Sir P. Sidney.

Pressed close to, or lying against, something for its whole length, as against a stem, Gray.

Approving, or implying approbation. Milner.

A conductor, conduit, or artificial channel for conveying water, especially one for supplying large cities with water.

A flying buttress. Gwilt.

The act of forming reasons, making inductions, drawing conclusions, and applying them to the case in discussion; the operation of inferring propositions, not known or admitted as true, from facts or principles known, admitted, or proved to be true. Which manner of argumentation, how false and naught it is, . . . every…