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ffluent in expression. H. Reed. Loaded and blest with all the affluent store, Which human vows at smoking shrines implore. Prior.

Nameless; of unknown name; also, of unknown /or unavowed authorship; as, an anonymous benefactor; an anonymous pamphlet or letter.

The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; -- the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire. New Eng. Dict.

f inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc. , which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house. Wharton. Coke.

To direct or address. [R.] Sacred vows . . . applied to grisly Pluto. Pope.

The rough breathing; a mark placed over an initial vowel sound or over h before it; thus hws, pronounced h, hrj'twr, pronounced hra\'b6t.

ing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant.

A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last accented vowel and those which follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary. The assonance is peculiar to the Spaniard. Hallam.…

A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.

Pertaining to baptism; as, baptismal vows. Baptismal name, the Christian name, which is given at baptism.

One who swerves from and is unfaithful to the marriage vow. [Poetic] Shak.

therlands, and elsewhere, whose members live in beguinages and are not bound by perpetual vows.

A vow; a promise. [Obs.] The time is come that I should send it her, if I keep the behest that I have made. Paston.

To promise; to vow. Behight by vow unto the chaste Minerve. Surrey.

To be inclined; to be directed. To whom our vows and wished bend. Milton.

of England; a church endowed with a revenue for the maintenance of divine service. See Advowson.

Promised; vowed. [Obs.] Spenser.

Fig.: To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other moral tie; as, to bind the conscience; to bind by kindness; bound by affection; commerce binds nations to each other. Who made our laws to bind us, not himself. Milton.

A form of Bi-, sometimes used before s, c, or a vowel.

law, or promise. Out, out, hyena! these are thy wonted arts . . . To break all faith, all vows, deceive, betray. Milton