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Admonition; advice; warning. [Obs.] Therefore give me no counsel: My griefs cry louder than advertisement. Shak.

Ready to receive advice. [R.] South.

With advice; wisely.

To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn. "I shall no more advise thee." Milton.

Advice; counsel; suggestion; also, a dispatch or advice boat. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Having power to advise; containing advice; as, an advisory council; their opinion is merely advisory. The General Association has a general advisory superintendence over all the ministers and churches. Trumbull.

To assign; to appoint. [R.] One of the domestics was affected to his special service. Thackeray.

reams affright our souls. Shak. A drear and dying sound Affrights the flamens at their service quaint. Milton.

Subsequent to and notwithstanding; as, after all our advice, you took that course.

A church service; a ritual or liturgy. [In this sense, usually Agenda.]

A hook, eyelet, or other device by which a piano wire is so held as to limit the vibration.

ow, the fist or a blow (at something); to aim a satire or a reflection (at some person or vice).

Any device, as a balloon, aëroplane, etc., for floating in, or flying through, the air.

Pertaining to allodium; freehold; free of rent or service; held independent of a lord paramount; -- opposed to feudal; as, allodial lands; allodial system. Blackstone.

e owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud. Blackstone. Bouvier.

r dearly well, And with so firm affection were allied. Spenser. The virtue nearest to our vice allied. Pope.

ps for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare. Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege Or ambush from the deep. Milton.

hange for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.

Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice.

of amity and commerce; the amity of the Whigs and Tories. To live on terms of amity with vice. Cowper.