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To settle or bring to a satisfactory state, so that parties are agreed in the result; as, to adjust accounts; the differences are adjusted.

To beautify; to dandify. I employed three good hours at least in adjusting and adonozing myself. Smollett.

To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize. The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Montouth. Macaulay.

ment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address. A mere rant of adulatory freedom. Burke.

To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me.

ho defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth.

Of or pertaining to the sea, or arm of the Mediterranean sea, east of Greece. See Archipelago.

Of or pertaining to Æolia or Æolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; æolic; as, the Æolian dialect.

Exposure to the free action of the air; airing; as, aëration of soil, of spawn, etc.

The combining form of the Greek word meaning air.

or of the nature of, aërobies; as, aërobiotic plants, which live only when supplied with free oxygen.

An instrument to measure the degree of sensation, by determining at how short a distance two impressions upon the skin can be distinguished, and thus to determine whether the condition of tactile sensibility is normal or altered.

Easy to be spoken to or addressed; receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; courteous; sociable. An affable and courteous gentleman. Shak. His manners polite and affable. Macaulay.

Kinship generally; close agreement; relation; conformity; resemblance; connection; as, the affinity of sounds, of colors, or of languages. There is a close affinity between imposture and credulity. Sir G. C. Lewis.

to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appelate court for review.

Expressing the agreement of the two terms of a proposition.

Free from affliction.

; hence, wealthy; abounding in goods or riches. Language . . . affluent in expression. H. Reed. Loaded and blest with all the affluent store, Which human vows at smoking shrines implore. Prior.

To make free; to enfranchise. Johnson.

The act of making free; enfranchisement. [R.]