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One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

A female actor or doer. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Without fingers or without toes.

s; but in modern minerology it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. Milton.

A title annexed to a man's name, to identify him more precisely; as, John Doe, Esq.; Richard Roe, Gent.; Robert Dale, Mason; Thomas Way, of New York; a mark of distinction; a title.

To prepare or make ready. [Obs.] His foe was soon addressed. Spenser. Turnus addressed his men to single fight. Dryden. The five foolish virgins addressed themselves at the noise of the bridegroom's coming. Jer. Taylor.

To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.

highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape. Admired as heroes and as gods obeyed. Pope.

Regarded with wonder and delight; highly prized; as, an admired poem.

Down. [Archaic & Poetic] Her hair adown her shoulders loosely lay displayed. Prior.

arendon. -- To have the advantage of (any one), to have a personal knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge. "You have the advantage of me; I don't remember ever to have had the honor." Sheridan. -- To take advantage of, to profit by; (often used in a bad sense) to overreach, to outwit.…

use a good reputation is, and how swift and advantageous a harbinger it is, wherever one goes. Chesterfield.

or become a part of it, though not essential. [R.] Where no act of the will advenes as a coefficient. Coleridge.

The great epic poem of Virgil, of which the hero is Æneas.

Aërial; ethereal; incorporeal; visionary. [Poetic] M. Arnold.

ndness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually. For he does neither affect company, nor is he fit for Shak. Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank, nor court that of the great. Hazlitt.

Passion; violent emotion. [Obs.] Most wretched man, That to affections does the bridle lend. Spenser.

A divine impartation of knowledge; supernatural impulse; inspiration. A poet writing against his genius will be like a prophet without his afflatus. Spence.

Made friends; reconciled. [Obs.] "Deadly foes . . . affriended." Spenser.

Africa. [Poetic]