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Far on in life or time. A gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles. Hawthorne. Advanced guard, a detachment of troops which precedes the march of the main body.

Risk; danger; peril. [Obs.] He was in great adventure of his life. Berners.

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

The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.]

Colored like bronze.

Consisting of air; resembling, or partaking of the nature of air. Hence: Unsubstantial; unreal.

Like, or from, the air; in an aërial manner. "A murmur heard aërially." Tennyson.

a brood of such birds; eyrie. Shak. Also fig.: A human residence or resting place perched like an eagle's nest.

The act of becoming aërified, or of changing from a solid or liquid form into an aëriform state; the state of being aëriform.

Microörganisms which live in contact with the air and need oxygen for their growth; as the microbacteria which form on the surface of putrefactive fluids.

Related to, or of the nature of, aërobies; as, aërobiotic plants, which live only when supplied with free oxygen.

the aëroplane, having curved surfaces, the advantages of which were first demonstrated by Lilienthal.

Of the nature of, or like, copper; brassy. [R.]

produce an effect or change upon. As might affect the earth with cold heat. Milton. The climate affected their health and spirits. Macaulay.

An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc. , are affections of bodies. "The affections of quantity." Boyle. And, truly, waking dreams were, more or less, An old and strange affection of the house. Tennyson.

Positive; dogmatic. [Obs.] J. Taylor. Lysicles was a little by the affirmative air of Crito. Berkeley.

f knowledge; supernatural impulse; inspiration. A poet writing against his genius will be like a prophet without his afflatus. Spence.

upply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords fruit; the sea affords an abundant supply of fish.

The act of pouring upon, or sprinkling with a liquid, as water upon a child in baptism. Specifically: (Med)

Inflames; glowing with light or passion; ablaze. G. Eliot.