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To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument. Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own. Pope.

to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning. In heaven . . . every one (so well they love each other) rejoiceth and hath his part in each other's advancement. Sir T. More. True religion . . . proposes for its end the joint advancement of the virtue and happiness of the people. Horsley.…

enefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. Give me advantage of some brief discourse. Shak. The advantages of a close alliance. Macaulay.

To accede, or come (to); to be added to something or become a part of it, though not essential. [R.] Where no act of the will advenes as a coefficient. Coleridge.

A social pretender on the lookout for advancement.

Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome. -- Ad*ven"ture*some*ness, n.

to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons. Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve. Milton.

Hostile. [R.] Southey.

e it for us all if we bore prosperity as well and wisely as we endure an adverse fortune. Southey. Adverse possession (Law), a possession of real property avowedly contrary to some claim of title in another person. Abbott.

Having opposite leaves, as plants which have the leaves so arranged on the stem.

A public notice, especially a paid notice in some public print; anything that advertises; as, a newspaper containing many advertisement.

Proper to be advised or to be done; expedient; prudent. Some judge it advisable for a man to account with his heart every day. South.

A rolling toward something. [R.]

To supply or impregnate with common air; as, to aërate soil; to aërate water.

Exposure to the free action of the air; airing; as, aëration of soil, of spawn, etc.

plies with air; esp. an apparatus used for charging mineral waters with gas and in making soda water.

t by aëronauts due to high speed of flights and rapidity in changing altitudes, combining some symptoms of mountain sickness and some of seasickness.

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

The science of gliding and soaring flight.

An instrument, proposed by Edison, for greatly intensifying speech. It consists of a phonograph diaphragm so arranged that its action opens and closes valves, producing synchronous air blasts sufficient to operate a larger diaphragm with greater amplitude of vibration.