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t; approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the plural. [He] made the like advances to the dissenters. Swift.

To strike or cast down; to overthrow. [Obs.] "Reassembling our afflicted powers." Milton.

That which surrounds and influences. The keen, the wholesome air of poverty. Wordsworth.

A reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned; a covert indication; indirect reference; a hint.

ishearten; to daunt. [Obs. or Archaic] The Silures, to amate the new general, rumored the overthrow greater than was true. Milton.

To lie in wait for, or to attack from a covert or lurking place; to waylay.

An anarch; one who advocates anarchy of aims at the overthrow of civil government.

Overthrowing; defeating; -- applied to Plato's refutative dialogues. Enfield.

in the same sentence; as, "The prodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himself." "He had covertly shot at Cromwell; he how openly aimed at the Queen."

To call upon another to decide a question controverted, to corroborate a statement, to vindicate one's rights, etc.; as, I appeal to all mankind for the truth of what is alleged. Hence: To call on one for aid; to make earnest request. I appeal to the Scriptures in the original. Horsley. They appealed to the sword. Maca…

To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason. I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will. Milton.

The act or offense of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the tickets or coverts of a forest. Spelman. Cowell.

To overtake. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism or satire; to censure; as, to attack a man, or his opinions, in a pamphlet.

To overtake. [Obs.] Bacon.

To occasion; to originate. [Obs.] Such an overthrow . . . I have authored. Chapman.

sed for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place. The high bastiles . . . which overtopped the walls. Holland.

In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9.

The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty.

Delayed beyond the usual time; too late; overtaken by night; benighted. "Some belated peasant." Milton. -- Be*lat"ed*ness, n. Milton.