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Not transmitting the actinic rays.

To set in order; to array; to attire; to deck, to dress. [Obs.]

The form of oath or appeal. Persons who . . . made use of prayer and adjurations. Addison.

A helper or assistant. [Archaic] Drayton.

ion of unlike parts. An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament. Gray.

A faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing. Elegant adumbrations of sacred truth. Bp. Horsley.

Adventitious. Gray.

owing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as, aërial rootlets, aërial plants. Gray.

rangement of the petals in a flower bud, as to folding, overlapping, etc.; prefloration. Gray. [Spelt also estivation.]

assign; to appoint. [R.] One of the domestics was affected to his special service. Thackeray.

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

With fright. Drayton.

or on the field. "We drove afield." Milton. How jocund did they drive their team afield! Gray.

In time past; formerly. "He prayed . . . as he did aforetime." Dan. vi. 10.

A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite.

A triple prayer in the sacrifice of the Mass, beginning with the words "Agnus Dei."

ny; to subject to extreme pain; to torture. He agonized his mother by his behavior. Thackeray.

specifically, the sufferings of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane. Being in an agony he prayed more earnestly. Luke xxii. 44.

The quality of being, or making one's self, agreeable; agreeableness. Thackeray.

An aid-de-camp, so called by abbreviation; as, a general's aid. Aid prayer (Law), a proceeding by which a defendant beseeches and claims assistance from some one who has a further or more permanent interest in the matter in suit. -- To pray in aid, to beseech and claim such assistance.