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ing, or the science of sounds; auditory. Acoustic duct, the auditory duct, or external passage of the ear. -- Acoustic telegraph, a telegraph making audible signals; a telephone. -- Acoustic vessels, brazen tubes or vessels, shaped like a bell, used in ancient theaters to propel the voices of the actors, so as to ren…

To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege. Reasons . . . were adduced on both sides. Macaulay. Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration. De Quincey.

An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel.

icating love; tender; as, the affectionate care of a parent; affectionate countenance, message, language.

In the act of grinning. "His visage all agrin." Tennyson.

A pipe for the passage of air; esp. a ventilating pipe.

nt parts. of the bodies of birds, which are filled with air and connected with the air passages of the lungs; an air cell.

A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel.

Also (perhaps from confusion with alley), a passage into which the pews of a church open.

To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to allegorize it.

A narrow passage; especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered way. I know each lane and every alley green. Milton.

iving indorsements, when the back of the bill itself is already full; a rider. [A French usage] Abbott.

afford, or yield; to let one have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest. He was allowed about three hundred pounds a year. Macaulay.

A usage, among diplomats, of rotation in precedence among representatives of equal rank, sometimes determined by lot and at other times in regular order. The practice obtains in the signing of treaties and conventions between nations.

A walk or passage; -- applied to passages of various kinds. The sides of every street were covered with fresh alures of marble. T. Warton.

ll, to make some change in the details or provisions of a bill or measure while on its passage, professedly for its improvement.

cident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life.

reased irritability of a nerve in the region of the positive electrode or anode on the passage of a current of electricity through it. Foster.

ation; -- usually in the plural; as, annotations on ancient authors, or on a word or a passage.

ely of laws, decrees, edicts, decisions of courts, or other established rules, permanent usages, and the like, which are made void by component authority. Do they mean to annul laws of inestimable value to our liberties Burke.