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Of or pertaining to a sea so named, the northwestern part of which is known as the Gulf of Venice.

A cultivated variety of the Asiatic gram, now introduced into the United States.

A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.

To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument. Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own. Pope.

ntage ground. [R.] Clarendon. -- To have the advantage of (any one), to have a personal knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge. "You have the advantage of me; I don't remember ever to have had the honor." Sheridan. -- To take advantage of, to profit by; (often used in a bad sense) to overreach, to…

To accede, or come (to); to be added to something or become a part of it, though not essential. [R.] Where no act of the will advenes as a coefficient. Coleridge.

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

Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign. To things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. Burke.

To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture. He would not adventure himself into the theater. Acts xix. 31.

A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes. These parchments are supposed to have been St. Paul's adversaria. Bp. Bull.

One who is turned against another or others with a design to oppose

Opposition; contrariety. [Obs.] Wyclif. Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Bacon.

To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said. I may again advert to the distinction. Owen.

The act of adverting, of the quality of being advertent; attention; notice; regard; heedfulness. To this difference it is right that advertence should be had in regulating taxation. J. S. Mill.

To give notice to; to inform or apprise; to notify; to make known; hence, to warn; -- often followed by of before the subject of information; as, to advertise a man of his loss. [Archaic] I will advertise thee what this people shall do. Num. xxiv. 14.

The act of informing or notifying; notification. [Archaic] An advertisement of danger. Bp. Burnet.

recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel. We may give advice, but we can not give conduct. Franklin.

to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn. "I shall no more advise thee." Milton.

, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.]

Exhibiting differences of quality or property in different directions; not isotropic. Sir W. Thomson.