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The act of equalizing; act or result of making adequate; an equivalent. [Obs.] Bp. Barlow.

A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. [R.] See Attendant keys, under Attendant, a.

egulation. Success depends on the nicest and minutest adjustment of the parts concerned. Paley.

A female helper or assistant. [R.]

the estate of an intestate, or to whom letters of administration have been granted; a female administrator.

A female admonitor.

, 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.

To adorn. [Obs.] Congealed little drops which do the morn adore. Spenser.

rent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone.

A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan; payment beforehand; the money or goods thus furnished; money or value supplied beforehand. I shall, with pleasure, make the necessary advances. Jay. The account was made up with intent to show what ad…

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

Attentive; heedful; regardful. Sir M. Hale. -- Ad*vert"ent*ly, adv.

ic notice of; to announce publicly, esp. by a printed notice; as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing day of a vessel, a political meeting.

s, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; æolic; as, the Æolian dialect.

Æolian, 1; as, the Æolic dialect; the Æolic mode.

l, professional, or public; -- often in the plural. "At the head of affairs." Junius. "A talent for affairs." Prescott.

To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch. A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles.

ying the mind; any emotion; as, the benevolent affections, esteem, gratitude, etc. ; the malevolent affections, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency. Affection is applicable to an unpleasant as well as a pleasant state of the mind, when impressed by any object or quality. Cogan.…

, by persons who conscientiously decline taking an oath, which declaration is in law equivalent to an oath. Bouvier.

To startle from quiet; to alarm. Smale foules a great heap That had afrayed [affrayed] me out of my sleep. Chaucer.