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A setting free, or deliverance from the charge of an offense, by verdict of a jury or sentence of a court. Bouvier.

Excess; intemperance. [Obs. except in Med.] Farindon.

The computing official of an insurance company; one whose profession it is to calculate for insurance companies the risks and premiums for life, fire, and other insurances.

Having the form or appearance of adipocere; as, an adipoceriform tumor.

An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel.

excite wonder; wonderful; marvelous. [Obs.] In man there is nothing admirable but his ignorance and weakness. Jer. Taylor.

Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach. What numbers groan for sad admission there! Young.

To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.

Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception. To gain admittance into the house. South. He desires admittance to the king. Dryden. To give admittance to a thought of fear. Shak.

The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning. In heaven . . . every one (so well they love each other) rejoiceth and hath his part in each other's advancement. Sir T. More. True religion . . . propose…

Information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from France; -- commonly in the plural.

To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance. Careless she is with artful care, Affecting to seem unaffected. Congreve. Thou dost affect my manners. Shak.

Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism. -- Ag*nos"tic*al*ly, adv.

That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies. Specifically: (Theol.)

, entreaty, contempt, threatening, delight, triumph, etc., according to the manner of utterance.

Utterance abroad; publicity; vent. You gave it air before me. Dryden.

if., in a dynamo or motor, the space between the field-magnet poles and the armature; clearance.

Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.

ue; as, matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state; an alliance between France and England.

of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. Without the king's will or the state's allowance. Shak.