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ce, to sail along the coast or side of. [Obs.] "So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea." Fuller.

Full of heaps. [R.] Bailey.

Full of small kernels like a grape.

Mature age; full bloom of life. B. Jonson.

A writing which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand. You can produce acquittances For such a sum, from special officers. Shak.

Actively. [Obs.] "Neither actually . . . nor passively." Fuller.

Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow.

eir minds to speculations. Adventurer. His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity. Fuller. A man gross . . . and addicted to low company. Macaulay.

An addition, or a thing added. Fuller. My persuasion that the latter verses of the chapter were an additament of a later age. Coleridge.

Like a gland; full of glands; glandulous; adenous.

One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.

Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition. Ireland had no adequate champion. De Quincey.

A dependent; an accessory. Fuller.

view with surprise; to marvel at. [Archaic] Examples rather to be admired than imitated. Fuller.

The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something The too easy admission of doctrines. Macaulay.

Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.

and averseness to comply with the court designs, advantaged his adversaries against him. Fuller. What is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away Luke ix. 25. To advantage one's self of, to avail one's self of. [Obs.]

Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.

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

Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; -- applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song.