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The act of addressing or directing one's course. [Rare & Obs.] Chapman.

Shaped like a gland; adenoid. Dunglison.

T. More. True religion . . . proposes for its end the joint advancement of the virtue and happiness of the people. Horsley.

That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss. Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she must, at all adventures, be fastened upon him individually. Milton.

alamitous; afflictive; hurtful; as, adverse fates, adverse circumstances, things adverse. Happy were it for us all if we bore prosperity as well and wisely 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…

Action; endeavor. [Obs.] And with his best affair Obeyed the pleasure of the Sun. Chapman.

Regarded with affection; beloved. [Obs.] His affected Hercules. Chapman.

Companionship; acquaintance. [Obs.] About forty years past, I began a happy affinity with William Cranmer. Burton.

and great fear; terror. It expresses a stronger impression than fear, or apprehension, perhaps less than terror. He looks behind him with affright, and forward with despair. Goldsmith.

An unexpected subsequent event; something disagreeable happening after an affair is supposed to be at an end. Spenser.

A disease occurring in Bengal and other parts of the East Indies, in which the tongue chaps and cleaves.

Perhaps; possibly. [Scotch] Burns.

A needle-shaped peak.

Also (perhaps from confusion with alley), a passage into which the pews of a church open.

Of or pertaining to wings; also, wing-shaped. The alary system of insects. Wollaston.

Wing-shaped; winglike.

any whatever; every; as, all the wheat; all the land; all the year; all the strength; all happiness; all abundance; loss of all power; beyond all doubt; you will see us all (or all of us). Prove all things: hold fast that which is good. 1 Thess. v. 21.

Admixture of anything which lessens the value or detracts from; as, no happiness is without alloy. "Pure English without Latin alloy." F. Harrison.

Anything shaped like an almond. Specifically: (Anat.)

nd other radioactive substances, and shown to consist of positively charged particles (perhaps particles of helium) having enormous velocities but small masses. They are slightly deflected by a strong magnetic or electric field.