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An ant. [Obs.] See Pismire.

r or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at. [Archaic] Examples rather to be admired than imitated. Fuller.

Regarded with wonder and delight; highly prized; as, an admired poem.

One who admires; one who esteems or loves greatly. Cowper.

The lowest note but one in Guido Aretino's scale of music.

To drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt. Bemired and benighted in the dog. Burke.

Half relief. See Demi-rilievo.

A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress. [Colloq.] De Quincey.

The pewit, or black-headed gull. [Prov. Eng.]

An ant, or emmet.

Soft, wet, miry land, which shakes or yields under the feet. "A spot surrounded by quagmires, which rendered it difficult of access." Palfrey.

See Quagmire. [Obs.]

Half hidden or half covered; said of the head of an insect when half covered by the shield of the thorax.

Liquid filth; mire. [Obs.]

One who adores; a worshiper; one who admires or loves greatly; an ardent admirer. "An adorer of truth." Clarendon. I profess myself her adorer, not her friend. Shak.

An encounter either friendly or hostile. [Obs.] I walked about, admired of all, and dreaded On hostile ground, none daring my affront. Milton.

f the Linnæan genus Formica, which is now made a family of several genera; an emmet; a pismire.

An admirer of antiquity.

nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition (Physiol.), a mode of growth characteristic of non vascular tissues, in which nutritive matter from the blood is transformed…

nd; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure; as, to attract admirers. Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze. Milton.