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To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.

e ground. [R.] Clarendon. -- To have the advantage of (any one), to have a personal knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge. "You have the advantage of me; I don't remember ever to have had the honor." Sheridan. -- To take advantage of, to profit by; (often used in a bad sense) to overreach, to outw…

Deliberate consideration; knowledge. [Obs.] How shall I dote on her with more advice, That thus without advice begin to love her Shak.

To betroth; to pledge one's faith to for marriage, or solemnly promise (one's self or another) in marriage. To me, sad maid, he was affianced. Spenser.

A divine impartation of knowledge; supernatural impulse; inspiration. A poet writing against his genius will be like a prophet without his afflatus. Spence.

To recognize; to acknowledge. [Archaic] I do agnize a natural and prompt alacrity. Shak.

One who professes ignorance, or denies that we have any knowledge, save of phenomena; one who supports agnosticism, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal Deity, a future life, etc.

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

Earlier form of Acknow. [Obs.] To be aknow, to acknowledge; to confess. [Obs.]

d with that which Providence allots him. Ten years I will allot to the attainment of knowledge. Johnson.

To own or acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion; as, to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow the truth of a proposition. I allow, with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that Miss Newcome's conduct . . . was highly reprehensible. Thackeray.

The exterior edge or border of a thing, as the border of a leaf, or the outline of a bivalve shell.

Having the outer edge prominent; said of the wings of insects.

The tracing of things to their source, and the resolving of knowledge into its original principles.

organization. Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together, according to the knowledge of them which is given us by anatomy. Dryden.

Two-edged instead of round; -- said of certain flattened stems, as those of blue grass, and rarely also of leaves.

parts of the world. It includes the lemon grass of Ceylon and the beard grass, or broom sedge, of the United States. The principal subgenus is Sorghum, including A. sorghum and A. halepensis, from which have been derived the Chinese sugar cane, the Johnson grass, the Aleppo grass, the broom corn, and the durra, or In…

The angle between the tangent to the advancing edge (of an aërocurve) and the line of motion; -- contrasted with angle of trail, which is the angle between the tangent to the following edge and the line of motion.

One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith.

Knowledge of the nature of man; hence, human wisdom.