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tate of being accumulated, or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of honors.

ceived. (c) In the state of having advanced money on account; as, A is advance to B a thousand dollars or pounds.

Relating to the season of advent. Sanderson.

c; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly. To advocate the cause of thy client. Bp. Sanderson (1624). This is the only thing distinct and sensible, that has been advocated. Burke. Eminent orators were engaged to advocate his cause. Mitford.

Advowson. [Obs.] The donations or advocations of church livings. Sanderson.

A heaping up; accumulation; as, aggerations of sand. [R.]

Allegation. [Obs.] With many complaints and allegements. Bp. Sanderson.

Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Lyell.

from; clear from. [Obs.] Rivetus . . . would fain work himself aloof these rocks and quicksands. Milton.

f being altered. Our condition in this world is mutable and uncertain, alterable by a thousand accidents. Rogers.

To vary by turns; as, the land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains.

on: By that sin fell the angels. Shak. The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres. Burke.

One of a genus of fishes; the sand eel.

or anastomoses with, the main stream; also, less properly, a branch which loses itself in sandy soil. [Australia]

Glass gall or sandiver.

See Anemone. Sandys.

r accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year; as, the annual motion of the earth. A thousand pound a year, annual support. Shak.

A neuropterous insect, the larva of which makes in the sand a pitfall to capture ants, etc. The common American species is Myrmeleon obsoletus, the European is M. formicarius.

before; a predecessor. The successor seldom prosecuting his antecessor's devices. Sir E. Sandys.

An Antinomian. [R.] Bp. Sanderson.