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To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords fruit; the sea affords an abundant supply of fish.

g in action; action; instrumentality. The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. Woodward.

The act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.

To recognize; to acknowledge. [Archaic] I do agnize a natural and prompt alacrity. Shak.

mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural. As a scholar, he [Dr. Parr] was brilliant, but he consumed his power in agonistic displays. De Quincey.

A diffusible substance formed from albumin by the action of natural or artificial gastric juice. See Peptone.

Any natural recess analogous to an alcove or recess in an apartment. The youthful wanderers found a wild alcove. Falconer.

An instrument for viewing pictures by means of a lens, so as to present them in their natural proportions and relations.

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.

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

Regard for others, both natural and moral; devotion to the interests of others; brotherly kindness; -- opposed to egoism or selfishness. [Recent] J. S. Mill.

A treatise on amphibious animals; the department of natural history which treats of the Amphibia.

rts and manners. De Quincey. Decay of public spirit, which may be considered analogous to natural death. J. H. Newman. nalogous pole (Pyroelect.), that pole of a crystal which becomes positively electrified when heated.

A syllabus, or table of the principal heads of a discourse, disposed in their natural order.

An inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the hills, for, the hills echoed.

A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

A soft, pulsating, hollow tumor, containing blood, arising from the preternatural dilation or rupture of the coats of an artery. [Written also aneurysm.]

To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.

An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds.

A genus of tropical or subtropical plants of the natural order Anonaceæ, including the soursop.