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The ship which carries the admiral; also, the most considerable ship of a fleet. Like some mighty admiral, dark and terrible, bearing down upon his antagonist with all his canvas straining to the wind, and all his thunders roaring from his broadsides. E. Everett.

Growing together; -- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts. An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament. Gray.

ifference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the plural. [He] made the like advances to the dissenters. Swift.

Colored like bronze.

Like, or from, the air; in an aërial manner. "A murmur heard aërially." Tennyson.

a brood of such birds; eyrie. Shak. Also fig.: A human residence or resting place perched like an eagle's nest.

Of the nature of, or like, copper; brassy. [R.]

Executed in a workmanlike manner; ingeniously made. [R.] Bailey.

To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually. For he does neither affect company, nor is he fit for Shak. Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank, nor court that of the great. Hazlitt.

f knowledge; supernatural impulse; inspiration. A poet writing against his genius will be like a prophet without his afflatus. Spence.

l; a picture after Rubens; the boy takes after his father. To name or call after, to name like and reference to. Our eldest son was named George after his uncle. Goldsmith.

Pertaining to, or like, agate.

To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass. Where he builds the agglomerated pile. Cowper.

s, in inflective languages to chemical compounds. R. Morris. Cf. man-kind, heir-loom, war-like, which are agglutinative compounds. The Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, the Tamul, etc., are agglutinative languages. R. Morris. Agglutinative languages preserve the consciousness of their roots. Max Müller.

o warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism.

Alike; similarly. [Obs.] Both clad in shepherds' weeds agreeably. Spenser.

elper; an assistant. It is not good that man should be alone; let us make unto him an aid like unto himself. Tobit viii. 6.

A tuft like that of the egret. (Bot.)

Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike. "An airy spirit." Shak.