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

ten; to alarm. Dreams affright our souls. Shak. A drear and dying sound Affrights the flamens at their service quaint. Milton.

One who frightens. [Archaic]

An offense to one's self-respect; shame. Arbuthnot.

Tending to affront or offend; offensive; abusive. How affrontive it is to despise mercy. South.

The quality that gives an affront or offense. [R.] Bailey.

Before (in all its senses). [Archaic]

Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed; as, malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder. Bouvier.

Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear; apprehensive. [Afraid comes after the noun it limits.] "Back they recoiled, afraid." Milton.

rtaining to Africa. African hemp, a fiber prerared from the leaves of the Sanseviera Guineensis, a plant found in Africa and India. -- African marigold, a tropical American plant (Tagetes erecta). -- African oak or African teak, a timber furnished by Oldfieldia Africana, used in ship building. African violet African-…

nformity with; after the manner of; as, to make a thing after a model; a picture after Rubens; the boy takes after his father. To name or call after, to name like and reference to. Our eldest son was named George after his uncle. Goldsmith.

The impression of a vivid sensation retained by the retina of the eye after the cause has been removed; also extended to impressions left of tones, smells, etc.

nt event; something disagreeable happening after an affair is supposed to be at an end. Spenser.

Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale.

To affright; to terrify. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

A church service; a ritual or liturgy. [In this sense, usually Agenda.]

A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) has lavender-blue flowers in dense clusters.

To favor; to grace. [Obs.] "That knight so much aggraced." Spenser.

To please. [Obs.] Each one sought his lady to aggrate. Spenser.

o make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify. "To aggravate my woes." Pope. To aggravate the horrors of the scene. Prescott. The defense made by the prisioner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime. Addison.…