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; frightful. -- Af*fright"ful*ly, adv. [Archaic] Bugbears or affrightful apparitions. Cudworth.

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

metimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion. An alien sound of melancholy. Wordsworth. Alien enemy (Law), one who owes allegiance to a government at war with ours. Abbott.

Praiseworthy; laudable. [Obs.] Hacket.

merly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc.

To transpose, as the letters of a word, so as to form an anagram. Cudworth.

A female anchoret. And there, a saintly anchoress, she dwelt. Wordsworth.

e; previous principles, conduct, course, history. J. H. Newman. If the troops . . . prove worthy of their antecedents, the victory is surely ours. Gen. G. McClellan.

true time. And antedate the bliss above. Pope. Who rather rose the day to antedate. Wordsworth.

Anthropomorphism. Wordsworth.

d fraught with antics as the Indian bird That writhes and chatters in her wiry cage. Wordsworth.

Resisting blows; hard. [Obs.] Cudworth.

Doubting; skeptical. [Obs.] Cudworth.

rees appareled with flowers, or a garden with verdure. Appareled in celestial light. Wordsworth.

taining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming. Cudworth.

said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc. , which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house. Wharton. Coke.

Desirable; capable or worthy of being the object of desire. Bramhall.

Worthy pf applause; praiseworthy. [Obs.]

To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels.

The act of setting the value; valuation by an appraiser; estimation of worth.