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To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone.

A handsome butterfly (Pyrameis Atalanta) of Europe and America. The larva feeds on nettles. Admiral shell (Zoöl.), the popular name of an ornamental cone shell (Conus admiralis). Lord High Admiral, a great officer of state, who (when this rare dignity is conferred) is at the head of the naval administration of Great Br…

the support of law; illegal. When any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds. Adam Smith.

Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution.

Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots.

as we endure an adverse fortune. Southey. Adverse possession (Law), a possession of real property avowedly contrary to some claim of title in another person. Abbott.

Proper to be advised or to be done; expedient; prudent. Some judge it advisable for a man to account with his heart every day. South.

Exhibiting differences of quality or property in different directions; not isotropic. Sir W. Thomson.

Difference of quality or property in different directions.

The science which treats of the properties of the air, and of the part it plays in nature. Craig.

g machine, or a small plane for experiments on flying, which floats in the air only when propelled through it.

An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc. , are affections of bodies. "The affections of quantity." Boyle. And, truly, waking dreams were, more or less, An old and strange affection of the house. Tennyson.

ich is asserted; an assertion; a positive as, an affirmation, by the vender, of title to property sold, or of its quality.

; to attach physically. Should they [caterpillars] affix them to the leaves of a plant improper for their food. Ray.

An abundant supply, as of thought, words, feelings, etc.; profusion; also, abundance of property; wealth. And old age of elegance, affluence, and ease. Coldsmith.

her and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.

One in favor of an equal division of landed property.

An equal or equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land.

The small white European heron. See Egret.

To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a fox, or at a target.