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Deliberate consideration; prudent procedure; caution.

Consideration; deliberation; consultation. Tempering the passion with advisement slow. Spenser.

The science of equilibrium and motion of air or an aëriform fluid, including aërodynamics and aërostatics.

The science that treats of the equilibrium of elastic fluids, or that of bodies sustained in them. Hence it includes aëronautics.

o dispose or incline. Men whom they thought best affected to religion and their country's liberty. Milton.

m opening into a larger one; especially, a recess to contain a bed; a lateral recess in a library.

Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt; as, the Alexandrian library.

grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest. He was allowed about three hundred pounds a year. Macaulay.

Fully sufficient; abundant; liberal; copious; as, an ample fortune; ample justice.

The extent of a movement measured from the starting point or position of equilibrium; -- applied especially to vibratory movements.

made void by component authority. Do they mean to annul laws of inestimable value to our liberties Burke.

in Syria. Antiochian epoch (Chron.), a method of computing time, from the proclamation of liberty granted to the city of Antioch, about the time of the battle of Pharsalia, B.C. 48.

orification; exaltation. "The apotheosis of chivalry." Prescott. "The noisy apotheosis of liberty and machinery." F. Harrison.

Containing an appeal. An appellatory libel ought to contain the name of the party appellant. Ayliffe.

abuse the possession of power. Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused licentiousness. Washington.

One who professes and practices some liberal art; an artist. [Obs.]

A Roman weight, answering to the libra or pound, equal to nearly eleven ounces Troy weight. It was divided into twelve ounces.

e crystalline compound of acetyl and salicylic acid used as a drug for the salicylic acid liberated from it in the intestines.

persons collected together in one place, and usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and legislation, for worship, or for social entertainment.

aim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties. To assert one's self, to claim or vindicate one's rights or position; to demand recognition.