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. (c) In the state of having advanced money on account; as, A is advance to B a thousand dollars or pounds.

To refine. [Obs.] Holland.

ion; to meet or encounter face to face. [Obs.] All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant. Holland. That he, as 't were by accident, may here Affront Ophelia. Shak.

ond moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen. Holland.

grew fat as he aged. They live one hundred and thirty years, and never age for all that. Holland. I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-colored, hair here and there. Landor.

Activity; powerful agency. [Obs.] The agility of the sun's fiery heat. Holland.

Of or pertaining to wings; also, wing-shaped. The alary system of insects. Wollaston.

coldness and collapse.

To use allegory. Holland.

Above; on top of. [Obs.] Fresh waters run aloft the sea. Holland.

Alternate; reciprocal. [Obs.] Holland.

t to the discretion of the court; as, the amerced the criminal in the sum on the hundred dollars.

ilder. [Obs.] Camillus set upon the Gauls when they were amused in receiving their gold. Holland. Being amused with grief, fear, and fright, he could not find the house. Fuller.

He wrought but some few hours of the day, and then would he seem very grave and ancient. Holland.

give some proof of animosity, audacity, and execution, those she [the crocodile] loveth. Holland.

To add on; to count in. [Obs.] Wollaston.

omparable. What wit and policy of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course Holland. This revelation . . . was answerable to that of the apostle to the Thessalonians. Milton.

The stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla, as in the Pink family. Gray.

al and freeze, only it will lose the strength, and become appalled in extremity of cold. Holland.

Desire; a longing for, or seeking after, something. Holland.