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s received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic church, being ordained to carry the wine and water and the lights at the Mass.

ferns, etc. See Cryptogamia. The Age of Acrogens (Geol.), the age of coal plants, or the carboniferous era.

; to fulfill functions; to put forth energy; to move, as opposed to remaining at rest; to carry into effect a determination of the will. He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest. Pope.

To carry out in practice; to perform. [Obs.] "To actuate what you command." Jer. Taylor.

The projection formed by the thyroid cartilage in the neck. It is particularly prominent in males, and is so called from a notion that it was caused by the forbidden fruit (an apple) sticking in the throat of our first parent. -- Adam's flannel (Bot.), the mullein (Verbascum thapsus). -- Adam's needle (Bot.), the pop…

One of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies.

To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. (a) To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. (b) To direct one's speech or discourse to.

A farewell; commendation to the care of God at parting. Shak.

The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel.

Contiguous. [Obs.] Carew.

ded with the general of the order, each of whom had a province or country assigned to his care.

The ship which carries the admiral; also, the most considerable ship of a fleet. Like some mighty admiral, dark and terrible, bearing down upon his antagonist with all his canvas straining to the wind, and all his thunders roaring from his broadsides. E. Everett.

At the door; of the door; as, out adoors. Shak. I took him in adoors. Vicar's Virgil (1630).

A servile or hypocritical flatterer. Carlyle.

Faintly representing; typical. Carlyle.

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.

To cut with an adz. [R.] Carlyle.

A carpenter's or cooper's tool, formed with a thin arching blade set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood.

A gigantic bird found fossil in Madagascar.

To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air. His sparkling sallies bubbled up as from aërated natural fountains. Carlyle.