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A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses. Lindley.

Terminating in a flat, narrow end. Lindley.

Dull-witted; stupid. "The addle-brained Oberstein." Motley. Dull and addle-pated. Dryden.

To draw towards a common center or a middle line. Huxley.

Pertaining to matters indifferent in faith and practice. Shipley.

gulation. Success depends on the nicest and minutest adjustment of the parts concerned. Paley.

e presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented. Shipley.

mechanic, an adroit reply. "Adroit in the application of the telescope and quadrant." Horsley. "He was adroit in intrigue." Macaulay.

being adroit; skill and readiness; dexterity. Adroitness was as requisite as courage. Motley.

ect portrayal or representation of a thing. Elegant adumbrations of sacred truth. Bp. Horsley.

proposes for its end the joint advancement of the virtue and happiness of the people. Horsley.

ason of Advent, being always the nearest Sunday to the feast of St. Andrew (Now. 30). Shipley.

Executed in a workmanlike manner; ingeniously made. [R.] Bailey.

; dogmatic. [Obs.] J. Taylor. Lysicles was a little by the affirmative air of Crito. Berkeley.

A fortress; a fortification for defense. [Obs.] Bailey.

A tumultuous assault or quarrel; a brawl; a fray. "In the very midst of the affray." Motley.

The quality that gives an affront or offense. [R.] Bailey.

In a flaunting state or position. Copley.

adv. All known agamogenetic processes end in a complete return to the primitive stock. Huxley.

The act of producing in addition. [Obs.] T. Stanley.