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something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc. A noxious drug had been administered to him. Macaulay.

as in Great Britain. A mild and popular administration. Macaulay. The administration has been opposed in parliament. Johnson.

testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority.

one who administers the estate of an intestate, or to whom letters of administration have been granted; a female administrator.

ing a pope by the expression of homage from two thirds of the conclave. [Pole] might have been chosen on the spot by adoration. Froude.

he necessary advances. Jay. The account was made up with intent to show what advances had been made. Kent. In advance (a) In front; before. (b) Beforehand; before an equivalent is received. (c) In the state of having advanced money on account; as, A is advance to B a thousand dollars or pounds.

s; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes. These parchments are supposed to have been St. Paul's adversaria. Bp. Bull.

thy client. Bp. Sanderson (1624). This is the only thing distinct and sensible, that has been advocated. Burke. Eminent orators were engaged to advocate his cause. Mitford.

and currency, and not after their intrinsic value. Bacon. After all, when everything has been considered; upon the whole. -- After (with the same noun preceding and following), as, wave after wave, day after day, several or many (waves, etc.) successively. -- One after another, successively. -- To be after, to be i…

The impression of a vivid sensation retained by the retina of the eye after the cause has been removed; also extended to impressions left of tones, smells, etc.

The grass that grows after the first crop has been mown; aftermath.

erse to; as, against reason; against law; to run a race against time. The gate would have been shut against her. Fielding. An argument against the use of steam. Tyndale.

ooril Islands etc., in the northern part of the empire of Japan, by some supposed to have been the progenitors of the Japanese. The Ainos are stout and short, with hairy bodies.

The bone of the rump; also, the cut of beef surrounding this bone. [Spelt also edgebone.]

According to the fashion or prevailing mode. "Alamode beef shops." Macaulay.

Lately; of late. [Archaic] There hath been alate such tales spread abroad. Latimer.

y after Easter Sunday, properly Albless Sunday, because in the early church those who had been baptized on Easter eve laid aside on the following Saturday their white albs which had been put on after baptism.

The imaginary milk-white animal on which Mohammed was said to have been carried up to heaven; a white mule.

n the 16th century and known by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been applied to certain elegant editions of English works.

+ CH3CHO = H3CH(OH)CH2CO; also, any of various derivatives of this. The same reaction has been applied, under the name of aldol condensation, to the production of many compounds.