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ve forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords fruit; the sea affords an abundant supply of fish.

That may be afforded.

Anything given as a help; bestowal. [Obs.]

Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.

Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accomodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn. Sir W. Scott.

Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture.

The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.

Affording food; nourishing. [R.] "Alimonious humors." Harvey.

To 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.

from Germany, characterized by overlapping plates, arranged to slide on rivets, and thus afford great flexibility.

The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building.

Prospect; outlook. [Obs.] This town affords a good aspect toward the hill from whence we descended. Evelyn.

y. [Archaic] Your rhymes assassinate our fame. Dryden. Such usage as your honorable lords Afford me, assassinated and betrayed. Milton.

To afford; to be to ; to supply with. bear him company. Pope.

A variety of clay ironstone, in Staffordshire, England, used for making tools.

near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food.

trivance, as a mole, or a wall at the mouth of a harbor, to break the force of waves, and afford protection from their violence.

A grass growing in bunches and affording pasture. In California, Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of Stipa are favorite bunch grasses. In Utah, Eriocoma cuspidata is a good bunch grass.

xii. 45, 46. But if, unless. [Obs.] Chaucer. But this I read, that but if remedy Thou her afford, full shortly I her dead shall see. Spenser.

To afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers. Had our great palace the capacity To camp this host, we all would sup together. Shak.