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there are different grades. The chief gradations in rank are admiral, vice admiral, and rear admiral. The admiral is the commander in chief of a fleet or of fleets.

Relating to or expressing admiration or wonder. [R.] Earle.

se. South. He desires admittance to the king. Dryden. To give admittance to a thought of fear. Shak.

nce; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine. Bishops and priests, . . . bearing the host, which he [James adored. Smollett.

transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone.

To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.

Far on in life or time. A gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles. Hawthorne. Advanced guard, a detachment of troops which precedes the march of the main body.

improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning. In heaven . . . every one (so well they love each other) rejoiceth and hath his part in each other's advancement. Sir T. More. True religion . . . proposes for its end the joint advancement of the virtue and happiness of…

irection of motion) of a supporting surface; -- contr. with following edge, which is the rear edge.

two or more surfaces arranged in tandem; -- contr. with following surface, which is the rear surface.

stmas. Advent Sunday (Eccl.), the first Sunday in the season of Advent, being always the nearest Sunday to the feast of St. Andrew (Now. 30). Shipley.

o modify the sense of a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white.

The quality of being adverbial. Earle.

or to be done; expedient; prudent. Some judge it advisable for a man to account with his heart every day. South.

eded by e. For most words found with this initial combination, the reader will therefore search under the letter E.

Growing, forming, or existing in the air, as opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as, aërial rootlets, aërial plants. Gray.

Like, or from, the air; in an aërial manner. "A murmur heard aërially." Tennyson.

Conveying or containing air; air-bearing; as, the windpipe is an aëriferous tube.

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

r measuring changes of temperature produced by different conditions of the sky, as when clear or clouded.