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A Spanish red wine made of the first ripe grapes.

A governor of a province; a commander. Prescott.

Advice; exhortation. [Obs.] Peacham.

Containing counsel or warning; hortatory; advisory. [Obs.] Potter.

Capable of being adjusted.

Adjustment. [R.]

Same as Ajutage.

The office of an adjutant.

A helper; an assistant.

A corruption of Agitator.

Admissible. Sir T. Browne.

to enter; the power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception. To gain admittance into the house. South. He desires admittance to the king. Dryden. To give admittance to a thought of fear. Shak.

The certificate of admission given in some American colleges.

Capable of being adopted.

Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. Give me advantage of some brief discourse. Shak. The advantages of a close alliance. Macaulay.

Advantageous. [Obs.]

Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation. Advabtageous comparison with any other country. Prescott. You see . . . of what use a good reputation is, and how swift and advantageous a harbinger it is, wherever one goe…

Profitably; with advantage.

Profitableness.

A medical certificate that a student is ill.