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In a signal manner; eminently.

Imposing reciprocal obligations upon the parties; as, a synallagmatic contract. Bouvier.

Having the outer and middle toes partially united; -- said of certain birds related to the creepers.

In a traditional manner.

Not allied; having no ally; having no connection or relation; as, unallied species or genera.

Not alloyed; not reduced by foreign admixture; unmixed; unqualified; pure; as, unalloyed metals; unalloyed happiness. I enjoyed unalloyed satisfaction in his company. Mitford.

In a venal manner.

In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.

The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations. Paley.

The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth. A mineral . . . augments not by grown, but by accretion. Owen. To strip off all the subordinate parts of his as a later accretion. Sir G. C. Lewis.

An extract or tincture obtained from Aconitum napellus, used as a poison and medicinally. Winter aconite, a plant (Eranthis hyemalis) allied to the aconites.

Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with, under Acquaint, v. t.

A registar or clerk; -- used originally in courts of civil law jurisdiction, but in Europe used for a clerk or registar generally.

ns, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface. Simpson.

A mass of fat found internally; also, a fatty tumor. -- Ad`i*pom"a*tous, a.

The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions. Jer. Taylor.

To denote additionally. [R.] Tooke.

The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.]

In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.

ain and again, more than once; often; repeatedly. -- Now and again, now and then; occasionally. -- To and again, to and fro. [Obs.] De Foe.