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To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests.

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

The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; 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 . . . propose…

Fig.: In motion; in action; astir; in progress. The matter being afoot. Shak.

Tending to aggravate. Ag*gres"sive*ly, adv. -- Ag*gres"sive*ness, n. No aggressive movement was made. Macaulay.

In a line, or with a progressive motion; onward; forward. We will go along by the king's highway. Numb. xxi. 22. He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. Coleridge.

The unit of electric current; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the unit of current of the C. G. S. system of electro-magnetic units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver i…

Deputies from the confederated states of ancient Greece to a congress or council. They considered both political and religious matters.

A gradual progression from one type to another, generally ascending. Huxley.

aking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.

the health by application to study. Had his application been equal to his talents, his progress night have been greater. J. Jay.

The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building.

ement of a logarithm. See Logarithm. -- Arithmetical mean. See Mean. -- Arithmetical progression. See Progression. -- Arithmetical proportion. See Proportion.

Anything which a man takes in his hand in anger, to strike or assault another with; an aggressive weapon. Cowell. Blackstone.

To come to the shore or bank. In present usage: To come in progress by water, or by traveling on land; to reach by water or by land; -- followed by at (formerly sometimes by to), also by in and from. "Arrived in Padua." Shak. [Æneas] sailing with a fleet from Sicily, arrived . . . and landed in the country of Laurentum…

To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at. "Canaan he now attains." Milton.

made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access.

To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.

To keep from motion, or stop the progress of, by the stilling of the wind; as, the fleet was becalmed.

ulation of South Africa. They are divided into totemic clans; they are intelligent and progressive.