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Manner of speaking to another; delivery; as, a man of pleasing or insinuating address.

The revocation or taking away of a grant donation, legacy, or the like. Bouvier.

The act of equalizing; act or result of making adequate; an equivalent. [Obs.] Bp. Barlow.

Adieu; farewell; good-by; -- chiefly used among Spanish- speaking people.

The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions. Jer. Taylor.

The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat. He loved excitement and adventure. Macaulay.

exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; -- applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song.

Counsel; advise; information. [Archaic] And mused awhile, waking advisement takes of what had passed in sleep. Daniel.

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

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

eight, 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.

One who affirms of taking an oath.

declaration made under the penalties of perjury, by persons who conscientiously decline taking an oath, which declaration is in law equivalent to an oath. Bouvier.

The act of making free; enfranchisement. [R.]

One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note.

Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances.

The act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.

Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation. -- Ag*gres"sive*ly, adv. -- Ag*gres"sive*ness, n.

in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue. Shaking it with agile hand. Cowper.

Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests.