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An assistant. [R.] Yelverton.

r the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone.

Wonder; astonishment. [Obs.] Season your admiration for a while. Shak.

To regard with wonder or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at. [Archaic] Examples rather to be admired than imitated. Fuller.

iii. 16. I warned thee, I admonished thee, foretold The danger, and the lurking enemy. Milton.

onisher; monitor. Conscience is at most times a very faithful and prudent admonitor. Shenstone.

Admonitory. [R.] "An admonitorial tone." Dickens.

To do; in doing; as, there is nothing. "What is here ado" J. Newton.

Adorned; decorated. [Obs.] Milton.

In a dry or thirsty condition. "A man that is adry." Burton.

orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone.

To defile by adultery. [Obs.] Milton.

To commit adultery. Milton.

Inflamed or scorched; fiery. "The Libyan air adust." Milton.

n it will be found, if she must, at all adventures, be fastened upon him individually. Milton.

; rashly daring; -- applied to persons. Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve. Milton.

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.

orthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn. "I shall no more advise thee." Milton.

nd in the air; performed in the air; as, aërial regions or currents. "Aërial spirits." Milton. "Aërial voyages." Darwin.

A stone, or metallic mass, which has fallen to the earth from distant space; a meteorite; a meteoric stone.