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Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome. -- Ad*ven"ture*some*ness, n.

A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.

The act of affixing, or the state of being affixed; attachment.

The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming.

An alcoholic tincture prepared with fresh plants. New Eng. Dict.

To attempt to draw; to tempt by a lure or bait, that is, by the offer of some good, real or apparent; to invite by something flattering or acceptable; to entice; to attract. With promised joys allured them on. Falconer. The golden sun in splendor likest Heaven Allured his eye. Milton.

The act alluring; temptation; enticement. Though Adam by his wife's allurement fell. Milton.

One who, or that which, allures.

applied to passages of various kinds. The sides of every street were covered with fresh alures of marble. T. Warton.

A mazy winding.

A small intrenchment or work of palisades, or of sacks of earth.

Combined with or containing antimony; as, antimoniureted hydrogen. [Written also antimoniuretted.]

opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall. An aperture between the mountains. Gilpin. The back aperture of the nostrils. Owen.

Rearing of bees for their honey and wax.

The introduction of water subcutaneously for the relief of pain.

The cultivation of trees and shrubs, chiefly for timber or for ornamental purposes.

e of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- often called civil architecture. Many other architectures besides Gothic. Ruskin.

A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire.

Armor; whatever is worn or used for the protection and defense of the body, esp. the protective outfit of some animals and plants.

Armor. [Obs.] Chaucer.