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Anything given as a help; bestowal. [Obs.]

The act of making free; enfranchisement. [R.]

Affray. [Obs.] Spenser.

The act of hiring, or the contract for the use of, a vessel, or some part of it, to convey cargo.

. [Archaic] Passionate words or blows . . . fill the child's mind with terror and affrightment. Locke.

Previously mentioned; before-mentioned. Addison.

Mentioned afterwards; as, persons after-mentioned (in a writing).

tate of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family.

Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.

Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests.

An additional or fourth name given by the Romans, or account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, Publius Caius Scipio Africanus.

State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council. What agreement hath the temple of God with idols 2 Cor. vi. 16. Expansion and duration have this further agreement. Locke.

See Aggroupment.

on; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases. "Little ailments." Landsdowne.

Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc.

To cover or saturate with albumen; to coat or treat with an albuminous solution; as, to albuminize paper.

The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also, the line of adjustment; esp., an imaginary line to regulate the formation of troops or of a squadron.

That which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: sustenance; means of support. Aliments of theiBacon.

od; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap.

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