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Growing; increasing. Shuckford.

A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers toes. Dana.

Heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters.

The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.

eeman. -- To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.

A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses. Lindley.

Growing to or on something else. "An adnascent plant." Evelyn.

Growing together; -- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts. An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament. Gray.

The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper.

Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth.

The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth.

The front edge (in direction of motion) of a supporting surface; -- contr. with following edge, which is the rear edge.

The first of two or more surfaces arranged in tandem; -- contr. with following surface, which is the rear surface.

Growing, forming, or existing in the air, as opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as, aërial rootlets, aërial plants. Gray.

Growing or thriving only in the presence of oxygen; also, pertaining to, or induced by, aërobies; as, aërobic fermentation. -- A`ër*o"bic*al*ly (#), adv.

A plant growing entirely in the air, and receiving its nourishment from it; an air plant or epiphyte.

Glowing; agitated, as with heat.

At, to, or from a great distance; far away; -- often used with from preceding, or off following; as, he was seen from afar; I saw him afar off. The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar. Beattie.

A blowing or breathing on; inspiration.