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At the same time; simultaneously. [Obs.] Abreast therewith began a convocation. Fuller.

Abstaining from wine. [Orig. Latin sense.] Under his special eye Abstemious I grew up and thrived amain. Milton.

To be wont. [Obs.] Carew.

An acid pulp in certain fruits, as the pear. Grew.

A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian. Double acrostic, a species of enigma, in which words are to be guessed whose initial and final letters form other words.

Having nice discernment; perceiving or using minute distinctions; penetrating; clever; shrewd; -- opposed to Ant: dull or Ant: stupid; as, an acute observer; acute remarks, or reasoning.

The twelfth month of the Hebrew ecclesiastical year, and the sixth of the civil. It corresponded nearly with March.

Good-by; farewell; an expression of kind wishes at parting.

Adieu; farewell; good-by; -- chiefly used among Spanish- speaking people.

Contiguous. [Obs.] Carew.

A Hebrew name for God, usually translated in the Old Testament by the word "Lord".

One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word translated "Jehovah" are really the vowel points of the word "Adonai." See Jehovist.

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

ss. Afore the mast, among the common sailors; -- a phrase used to distinguish the ship's crew from the officers.

To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age; as, he grew fat as he aged. They live one hundred and thirty years, and never age for all that. Holland. I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-colored, hair here and there. Landor.

to or between. [Obs.] The agreeableness between man and the other parts of the universe. Grew.

An islet, or little isle, in a river or lake; an eyot. The ait where the osiers grew. R. Hodges (1649). Among green aits and meadows. Dickens.

to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were allowanced.

aining unto this life, for sundry wise ends alternates the disposition of good and evil. Grew.

The mission of an ambassador. [Obs.] Carew.