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The order that includes rapacious birds. They have a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. There are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls.

To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. [Obs.] "So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea." Fuller.

One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic church, being ordained to carry the wine and water and the lights at the Mass.

, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto.

o apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to; to accost. Are not your orders to address the senate Addison. The representatives of the nation addressed the king. Swift.

To set in order; to array; to attire; to deck, to dress. [Obs.]

Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway. "The adjacent forest." B. Jonson. Adjacent or contiguous angle. (Geom.) See Angle.

To put in order; to regulate, or reduce to system. Adjusting the orthography. Johnson.

an army, through whom the commanding general receives communications and issues military orders. In the U. S. army he is brigadier general. (b) (Among the Jesuits), one of a select number of fathers, who resided with the general of the order, each of whom had a province or country assigned to his care.…

Wonderful; also, admirable. [Obs.] "Admired disorder." " Admired Miranda." Shak.

A form of fruit in the cycle of development of the Rusts or Brands, an order of fungi, formerly considered independent plants.

to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appelate court for review.

Below in rank; next to in order. Shak. Codrus after PhDryden.

Against; also, towards (in order to meet). [Obs.] Albeit that it is again his kind. Chaucer.

A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceæ) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice…

ity, or accordance; -- in this sense used adverbially for agreeably; as, agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.

An officer selected by a general to carry orders, also to assist or represent him in correspondence and in directing movements.

he feet, an enveloping the person; -- in the Roman Catholic church, worn by those in holy orders when officiating at mass. It was formerly worn, at least by clerics, in daily life.

One of the orders of Anthozoa. It includes the Alcyonacea, Pennatulacea, and Gorgonacea.

A zoöphyte of the order Alcyonaria.