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To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish; as, a good life affords consolation in old age. His tuneful Muse affords the sweetest numbers. Addison. The quiet lanes . . . afford calmer retreats. Gilpin.

Before (in all its senses). [Archaic]

ssed with fear or apprehension; in fear; apprehensive. [Afraid comes after the noun it limits.] "Back they recoiled, afraid." Milton.

llied to the cranes, and easily domesticated; -- called also the gold-breasted trumpeter. Its body is about the size of the pheasant. See Trumpeter.

ellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.

That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; as, what is the present age of a man, or of the earth

Without old age limits of duration; as, fountains of ageless youth.

easing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.

To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.

A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance of mind which shows itself by physical excitement; perturbation; as, to cause any one agitation.

, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert S…

To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well; as, the same food does not agree with every constitution.

e species (Myrmica barbata) found in Texas clears circular areas and carefully cultivates its favorite grain, known as ant rice.

On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground. Totten.

An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.

In gasoline-engine motor vehicles, the cooling of the cylinder by increasing its radiating surface by means of ribs or radiators, and placing it so that it is exposed to a current of air. Cf. Water cooling. -- Air"-cooled`, a.

A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone; an aërophyte.

A stove for heating a current of air which is directed against its surface by means of pipes, and then distributed through a building.

Lightness of spirits; gayety; levity; as, the airiness of young persons.

A hollow cylinder to contain air. It is closed above and open below, and has its open end plunged into water.