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To direct, as words (to any one or any thing); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience). The young hero had addressed his players to him for his assistance. Dryden.

nk, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted. Advanced to a level with ancient peers. Prescott.

A sickness felt by aëronauts due to high speed of flights and rapidity in changing altitudes, combining some symptoms of mountain sickness and some of seasickness.

An instrument, proposed by Edison, for greatly intensifying speech. It consists of a phonograph diaphragm so arranged that its action opens and closes valves, producing synchronous air blasts sufficient to operate a larger diaphragm with greater amplitude of vibration.

oöperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist. You speedy helpers . . . Appear and aid me in this enterprise. Shak.

y sort; to be ill or indisposed or in trouble. When he ails ever so little . . . he is so peevish. Richardson.

A contraction for are not and am not; also used for is not. [Colloq. or llliterate speech]. See An't.

m of aphasia, called motor, or ataxis, aphasia, due to loss of control of the muscles of speech.

ainly mentioned; -- followed by to; as, the story alludes to a recent transaction. These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use. Hooker.

fty mountains of Switzerland, etc. Nor breath of vernal air from snowy alp. Milton. Hills peep o'er hills, and alps on alps arise. Pope.

Lofty speech; pompous language. [R.] Bailey.

High-sounding; pompous in speech. [R.] Bailey.

At full speed; in great haste; also, at once. "They fled amain." Holinshed.

winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech. After many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is. Burton.

tation. Sterne. Ignorant I was of the human frame, and of its latent powers, as regarded speed, force, and ambidexterity. De Quincey.

Forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ. Quian.

Ambiguity of speech; equivocation. [R.]

re and am not; also used for is not; -- now usually written ain't. [Colloq. & illiterate speech.]

Exaction of forced service; compulsion. [Obs.] Speed.

An East Indian money of account, the sixteenth of a rupee, or about 2