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The act of affeering. Blackstone.

A reënforcement; a strengthening. Hallam.

See Afforcement. [Obs.]

Anything given as a help; bestowal. [Obs.]

The act of making free; enfranchisement. [R.]

Affray. [Obs.] Spenser.

The act of hiring, or the contract for the use of, a vessel, or some part of it, to convey cargo.

. [Archaic] Passionate words or blows . . . fill the child's mind with terror and affrightment. Locke.

Previously mentioned; before-mentioned. Addison.

Mentioned afterwards; as, persons after-mentioned (in a writing).

tate of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family.

Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.

A charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes.

State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council. What agreement hath the temple of God with idols 2 Cor. vi. 16. Expansion and duration have this further agreement. Locke.

See Aggroupment.

on; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases. "Little ailments." Landsdowne.

The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also, the line of adjustment; esp., an imaginary line to regulate the formation of troops or of a squadron.

That which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: sustenance; means of support. Aliments of theiBacon.

od; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap.

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