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Regarded with wonder and delight; highly prized; as, an admired poem.

Homage paid to one in high esteem; profound veneration; intense regard and love; fervent devotion.

To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize. The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Montouth. Macaulay.

A crystalline substance, C9H13O3N, obtained from suprarenal extract, of which it is regarded as the active principle. It is used in medicine as a stimulant and hemostatic.

In the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers.

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.

Attentive; heedful; regardful. Sir M. Hale. -- Ad*vert"ent*ly, adv.

hology, the gods Odin, Thor, Loki, Balder, Frigg, and the others. Their home was called Asgard.

To love; to regard with affection. [Obs.] As for Queen Katharine, he rather respected than affected, rather honored than loved, her. Fuller.

Regarded with affection; beloved. [Obs.] His affected Hercules. Chapman.

Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother.

f mind or body; anguish; paroxysm of grief; specifically, the sufferings of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane. Being in an agony he prayed more earnestly. Luke xxii. 44.

To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear. Alarmed by rumors of military preparation. Macaulay.

A small ornamental building with seats, or an arched seat, in a pleasure ground; a garden bower. Cowper.

One of a series of compounds that may be regarded as ammonia in which a part of the hydrogen has been replaced by basic, and another part by acid, atoms or radicals.

ch are of frequent occurrence in our old authors, the all and the to have commonly been regarded as forming a compound adverb, equivalent in meaning to entirely, completely, altogether. But the sense of entireness lies wholly in the word all (as it does in "all forlorn," and similar expressions), and the to properly be…

A narrow passage; especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered way. I know each lane and every alley green. Milton.

rson. Cottage allotment, an allotment of a small portion of land to a country laborer for garden cultivation. [Eng.]

on. Altern base (Trig.), a second side made base, in distinction from a side previously regarded as base.

A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks.