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lity of being advertent; attention; notice; regard; heedfulness. To this difference it is right that advertence should be had in regulating taxation. J. S. Mill.

The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.]

A carpenter's or cooper's tool, formed with a thin arching blade set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood.

To frighten. [Obs.] Spenser.

To frighten; to scare; to frighten away. That voice doth us affray. Shak.

ng; in relation to; as, to look after workmen; to inquire after a friend; to thirst after righteousness.

To affright; to terrify. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities; as, to come of age; he (or she) is of age. Abbott.

To give pain or sorrow to; to afflict; hence, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon; -- now commonly used in the passive TO be aggrieved. Aggrieved by oppression and extortion. Macaulay.

To terrify; to affright. [Obs.] His manly face that did his foes agrise. Spenser.

Light of heart; vivacious; sprightly; flippant; superficial. "Merry and airy." Jer. Taylor.

A cheerful readiness, willingness, or promptitude; joyous activity; briskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced with alacrity to meet the enemy. I have not that alacrity of spirit, Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have. Shak.

ed star of the first magnitude, situated in the eye of Taurus; the Bull's Eye. It is the bright star in the group called the Hyades. Now when Aldebaran was mounted high Above the shiny Cassiopeia's chair. Spenser.

Gay; cheerful; sprightly. [Obs.] Bacon.

in Medusa's head, in the constellation Perseus, remarkable for its periodic variation in brightness.

To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.

Sprightly; lively; brisk. Richardson.

An allegro movement; a quick, sprightly strain or piece.

wn or acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion; as, to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow the truth of a proposition. I allow, with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that Miss Newcome's conduct . . . was highly reprehensible. Thackeray.

Pertaining equally to the right-hand side and the left-hand side. Earle.