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The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan. Kitto.

to adhere; to maintain. The poor fellow was obstinate enough to abide by what he said at first. Fielding.

A genus of coniferous trees, properly called Fir, as the balsam fir and the silver fir. The spruces are sometimes also referred to this genus.

Of or pertaining to the fir tree or its products; as, abietic acid, called also sylvic acid. Watts.

A substance resembling mannite, found in the needles of the common silver fir of Europe (Abies pectinata). Eng. Cyc.

On fire; in a blaze, gleaming. Milman. All ablaze with crimson and gold. Longfellow.

First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. "Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf." Wordsworth.

In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil.

To set on fire; to kindle. [Obs.] Fotherby.

An onset, attack, or fit of disease. The first access looked like an apoplexy. Burnet.

To speak to first; to address; to greet. "Him, Satan thus accosts." Milton.

To put forth the first sprout.

A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto.

as opposed to a possibility or possible existence. [Obs.] The seeds of plants are not at first in act, but in possibility, what they afterward grow to be. Hooker.

se profession it is to calculate for insurance companies the risks and premiums for life, fire, and other insurances.

iving to actuate by the perpetual motion. Johnson. Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it. Addison.

ssumes the forms ac-, af-, ag-, al-, an-, ap-, ar-, as-, at-, assimilating the d with the first letter of the word to which ad- is prefixed. It remains unchanged before vowels, and before d, h, j, m, v. Examples: adduce, adhere, adjacent, admit, advent, accord, affect, aggregate, allude, annex, appear, etc. It becomes…

The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race.

A Spanish red wine made of the first ripe grapes.

Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, to error, to a policy. His adhesion to the Tories was bounded by his approbation of their foreign policy. De Quincey.