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The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence. The active informations of the intellect. South.

Untrue or incorrect information. Bacon.

Obtainable; to be got at. The best information . . . at present accessible. Macaulay.

; to notify; to make known; hence, to warn; -- often followed by of before the subject of information; as, to advertise a man of his loss. [Archaic] I will advertise thee what this people shall do. Num. xxiv. 14.

Information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from France; -- commonly in the plural.

To give information or notice to; to inform; -- with of before the thing communicated; as, we were advised of the risk. To advise one's self, to bethink one's self; to take counsel with one's self; to reflect; to consider. [Obs.] Bid thy master well advise himself. Shak.

Counsel; advise; information. [Archaic] And mused awhile, waking advisement takes of what had passed in sleep. Daniel.

Intelligence; information. [Obs.] Bacon.

Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in my holy mountain. Joel ii. 1.

nac, or year book, containing astronomical calculations (lunar, stellar, etc.), and other information useful to mariners.

ew to gain something; to make application. (to); to solicit; as, to apply to a friend for information.

Notice; information. [Obs.] Gower.

y; true; trustworthy; credible; as, an authentic writer; an authentic portrait; authentic information.

Information; advice.

t the customhouse, by which goods, respecting which the importer is not possessed of full information, may be provisionally landed for examination. -- Bill of store, a license granted at the customhouse to merchants, to carry such stores and provisions as are necessary for a voyage, custom free. Wharton. -- Bills pay…

rs a blank ballot; -- especially, a paper on which are to be inserted designated items of information, for which spaces are left vacant; a bland form. The freemen signified their approbation by an inscribed vote, and their dissent by a blank. Palfrey.

To impart, as news or information; to broach; -- with to, and often with a modified word implying some reserve; as, to break the news gently to the widow; to break a purpose cautiously to a friend.

ary operations or the health of some distinguished personage, issued by authority for the information of the public.

cards, to expose one's plants to rivals or foes. -- To speak by the card, to speak from information and definitely, not by guess as in telling a ship's bearing by the compass card. -- Visiting card, a small card bearing the name, and sometimes the address, of the person presenting it.

A stoke, touch, or trick. [Obs.] This was a cast of Wood's politics; for his information was wholly false. Swift.