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To award; to adjudge. [Obs.] "Unto him they did addeem the prise." Spenser.

To adjudge. [Obs.] Spenser.

To aim; to direct. [Obs.] Chaucer. And this good knight his way with me addrest. Spenser.

Propensity to form and maintain attachments to persons, and to promote social intercourse.

To join one's self. [Obs.] She lightly unto him adjoined side to side. Spenser.

To dispense; to serve out; to supply; execute; as, to administer relief, to administer the sacrament. [Let zephyrs] administer their tepid, genial airs. Philips. Justice was administered with an exactness and purity not before known. Macaulay.

The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation; as, the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament.

One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.

Admiration. [Obs.] Spenser.

To adorn. [Obs.] Congealed little drops which do the morn adore. Spenser.

Adornment. [Obs.] Spenser.

r situation; downward; down, to or on the ground. [Archaic] "Thrice did she sink adown." Spenser.

To extol; to laud. [Obs.] Greatly advancing his gay chivalry. Spenser.

That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss. Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she must, at all adventures, be fastened upon him individually. Milton.

Consideration; deliberation; consultation. Tempering the passion with advisement slow. Spenser.

Award. [Obs.] Spenser.

y 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.

The science of sensation in relation to nervous action. H. Spenser.

To afflict with, or perish from, hunger. [Obs.] Spenser.

To frighten. [Obs.] Spenser.