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Shady; umbrageous. [Obs.]

To convert or recover from the state of a proselyte. Fuller.

Full of vapor; vaporous.

Having a nauseous odor; fetid; poisonous. [R.]

Full of wounds; wounded.

[Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Aboon the pass of Bally-Brough. Sir W. Scott. The ceiling fair that rose aboon. J. R. Drake.

r dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till. Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins from the harness. W. Black.

Acerose; needle-shaped.

Same as Acerose.

A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses. Lindley.

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

The last milk drawn in milking; strokings. [Obs.] Grose.

A genus of plants of the Rose family.

, which may be sung by a single voice to the stanzas of a hymn or song, or even to plain prose, or played upon an instrument; a melody; a tune; an aria.

agitated; disturbed; as, an alarmed neighborhood; an alarmed modesty. The white pavilions rose and fell On the alarmed air. Longfellow.

Of or pertaining to St. Ambrose; as, the Ambrosian office, or ritual, a formula of worship in the church of Milan, instituted by St. Ambrose. Ambrosian chant, the mode of signing or chanting introduced by St. Ambrose in the 4th century.

An early coin struck by the dukes of Milan, and bearing the figure of St. Ambrose on horseback.

posted in a concealed place, for attacking by surprise; liers in wait. [Obs.] The ambush arose quickly out of their place. Josh. viii. 19. To lay an ambush, to post a force in ambush.

Party (U. S. Politics), a party of principles similar to those of the American party. It arose about 1843, but soon died out.

anner in which it was managed. Prideoux. Amicable action (Law.), an action commenced and prosecuted by amicable consent of the parties, for the purpose of obtaining a decision of the court on some matter of law involved in it. Bouvier. Burrill. -- Amicable numbers (Math.), two numbers, each of which is equal to the su…