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Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons. Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve. Milton.

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

Counseling to perform a specific illegal act. Wharton. Advice boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat. -- To take advice. (a) To accept advice. (b) To consult with another or others.

With deliberate purpose; purposely; by design. "Advisedly undertaken." Suckling.

A rolling toward something. [R.]

e or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air. His sparkling sallies bubbled up as from aërated natural fountains. Carlyle.

Consisting of air; resembling, or partaking of the nature of air. Hence: Unsubstantial; unreal.

Pertaining to aëronautics, or aërial sailing.

The science or art of ascending and sailing in the air, as by means of a balloon; aërial navigation; ballooning.

Pertaining to Æsculapius or to the healing art; medical; medicinal.

Perception by the senses; feeling; -- the opposite of anæsthesia.

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.

Affected; given to false show. [Obs.] A drawling; affecting rouge. Shak.

Bent of mind; a feeling or natural impulse or natural impulse acting upon and swaying 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 pleas…

With feeling.

Trust; reliance; faith; confidence. Such feelings promptly yielded to his habitual affiance in the divine love. Sir J. Stephen. Lancelot, my Lancelot, thou in whom I have Most joy and most affiance. Tennyson.

e or assert positively. Not that I so affirm, though so it seem To thee, who hast thy dwelling here on earth. Milton.

To strike or cast down; to overthrow. [Obs.] "Reassembling our afflicted powers." Milton.

An abundant supply, as of thought, words, feelings, etc.; profusion; also, abundance of property; wealth. And old age of elegance, affluence, and ease. Coldsmith.

To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too great injury; as, A affords his goods cheaper than B; a man can afford a sum yearly in charity.