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Advice; counsel; suggestion; also, a dispatch or advice boat. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

in Edinburgh. -- Lord advocate (Scot.), the public prosecutor of crimes, and principal crown lawyer. -- Judge advocate. See under Judge.

The act of flowing towards; afflux. Sir T. Browne.

Flowing. Their founts aflow with tears. R. Browning.

Mark xiv. 56. The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you. Sir T. Browne.

In the act of groping. Mrs. Browning.

A feathery crown of seed; egret; as, the aigrette or down of the dandelion or the thistle.

(Angling) An artificial fly with brown mottled wings, body of peacock harl, and black legs.

So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne.

g with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue. Fixed alkalies, potash and soda. -- Vegetable alkalies. Same as Alkaloids. -- Volatile alkali, ammonia, so called in distinction from the fixed alkalies.…

Attractive power; attractiveness. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Succession by turns; alternation. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Of a pale brown color; leather-yellow. Brande.

song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill. [Written also amaduvad and avadavat.]

ughout India for making ropes, cordage, and a coarse canvas and sackcloth; --called also brown Indian hemp.

Pertaining the faculty of using both hands with equal ease. Sir T. Browne.

Left-handed on both sides; clumsy; -- opposed to ambidexter. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The act of walking. Sir T. Browne.

Deprivation; loss. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To lose. [Obs.] A lodestone fired doth presently amit its proper virtue. Sir T. Browne.