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A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration.

That which is adjacent.[R.] Sir T. Browne.

Admissible. Sir T. Browne.

Concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To move or conduct to or toward. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The act of adoring; adoration. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Advice; counsel; suggestion; also, a dispatch or advice boat. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The act of flowing towards; afflux. Sir T. Browne.

Flowing. Their founts aflow with tears. R. Browning.

Mark xiv. 56. The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you. Sir T. Browne.

In the act of groping. Mrs. Browning.

(Angling) An artificial fly with brown mottled wings, body of peacock harl, and black legs.

So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne.

ng with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue. Fixed alkalies, potash and soda. -- Vegetable alkalies. Same as Alkaloids. -- Volatile alkali, ammonia, so called in distinction from the fixed alkalies.…

Attractive power; attractiveness. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Succession by turns; alternation. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Of a pale brown color; leather-yellow. Brande.

song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill. [Written also amaduvad and avadavat.]

oughout India for making ropes, cordage, and a coarse canvas and sackcloth; --called also brown Indian hemp.

Pertaining the faculty of using both hands with equal ease. Sir T. Browne.