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Good-by; farewell; an expression of kind wishes at parting.

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

off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive. As a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. Isa. lxi. 10. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place. Goldsmith.

duction of the effect of the atmospheric medium through which every object in nature is viewed. New Am. Cyc.

g the sights or telescope, and showing the degrees cut off on the arc of the instrument Whewell.

Wholly; completely; altogether; entirely; quite; very; as, all bedewed; my friend is all for amusement. "And cheeks all pale." Byron.

Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young.

phonsine tables, astronomical tables prepared under the patronage of Alphonso the Wise. Whewell.

ed quartz, of a purple or bluish violet color, of different shades. It is much used as a jeweler's stone. Oriental amethyst, the violet-blue variety of transparent crystallized corundum or sapphire.

rous projection or representation of an image on a plane or curved surface, which, when viewed from a certain point, or as reflected from a curved mirror or through a polyhedron, appears regular and in proportion; a deformation of an image.

An androgynous plant. Whewell.

Lasting or continuing only one year or one growing season; requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant; annual tickets. Bacon.

A space viewed as the outer chamber or the entrance to an interior part. The mouth, the antechamber to the digestive canal. Todd & Bowman.

Inhabitants of opposite hemispheres. Whewell.

taste; antepast; as, the anticipation of the joys of heaven. The happy anticipation of renewed existence in company with the spirits of the just. Thodey.

Anything viewed as a revelation; as disclosure. The new apocalypse of Nature. Carlyle.

Relating to the casting of horoscopes. [Archaic] Whewell.

A pie made of apples (usually sliced or stewed) with spice and sugar. Apple-pie bed, a bed in which, as a joke, the sheets are so doubled (like the cover of an apple turnover) as to prevent any one from getting at his length between them. Halliwell, Conybeare. -- Apple-pie order, perfect order or arrangement. [Colloq.…

A genus of palms, one species of which produces the areca nut, or betel nut, which is chewed in India with the leaf of the Piper Betle and lime.

will appear as Hamlet. The beggar is greater as a man, than is the man merely as a king. Dewey.