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Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a falcon or hawk; hawklike. Lowell.

; a description; as, an account of a battle. "A laudable account of the city of London." Howell.

yhold tenants, on the death of their landlords, as an acknowledgment of their new lords. Cowell.

with the first letter of the word to which ad- is prefixed. It remains unchanged before vowels, and before d, h, j, m, v. Examples: adduce, adhere, adjacent, admit, advent, accord, affect, aggregate, allude, annex, appear, etc. It becomes ac- before qu, as in acquiesce.

Dancing. Lowell.

Helping; helpful; assisting. [R.] "Adjuvant causes." Howell.

One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word translated "Jehovah" are really the vowel points of the word "Adonai." See Jehovist.

Burnt; adust. [Obs.] Howell.

A second branch of a buck's antler. Howell.

One who has an advowson. Cowell.

doctrine of æsthetics; æsthetic principles; devotion to the beautiful in nature and art. Lowell.

One who affeers. Cowell.

Gleaming; as, faces agleam. Lowell.

An illuminator of manuscripts and books; a limner. [Obs.] Cowell.

A juror who takes money from both parties for giving his verdict. Cowell.

was there such an amphibolous quarrel -- both parties declaring themselves for the king. Howell.

To refer to, or put into, a wrong time. [R.] Lowell.

n form or personality to. You may see imaginative children every day anthropomorphizing. Lowell.

Diametrically opposite. His antipodal shadow." Lowell.

Gently opening the bowels; laxative. -- n.