Emily Dickinson Lexicon

AD-VOU'TRY, n.

Adultery. [Little used.] Bacon.

AD-VOW-EE', n.

1. He that has the right of advowson. Cowel.
2. The advocate of a church or religious house. Cyc.

AD-VOW'SON, n.

s as z. [Fr. avouerie, from avouer, to avow; Norm. avoerie, or avoeson. But the word was latinized, advocatio, from advoco, and avow is from advoco.] In English law, a right of presentation to a vacant benefice; or, in other words, a right of nominating a person to officiate in a vacant church. The name is derived from advocatio, because the right was first obtained by such as were founders, benefactors, or strenuous defenders, advocates, of the church. Those who have this right are styled patrons. Advowsons are of three kinds, presentative, collative, and donative; presentative, when the patron presents his clerk to the bishop of the diocese to be instituted; collative, when the bishop is the patron, and institutes, or collates his clerk, by a single act; donative, when a church is founded by the king, and assigned to the patron, without being subject to the ordinary, so that the patron confers the benefice on his clerk, without presentation, institution, or induction. Advowsons are also appendant, that is, annexed to a manor; or, in gross, that is, annexed to the person of the patron. Blackstone.

AD-VOY'ER, or A-VOY'ER, n. [Old Fr. advoes.]

A chief magistrate of a town or canton in Switzerland.

A'DY, n.

The abanga, or Thernel's restorative; a species of palm-tree, in the West Indies, tall, upright, without branches, with a thick branching head, which furnishes a juice, of which the natives make a drink by fermentation. Encyc. Coxe.

A-DY-NAM'IC, a.

Weak, destitute of strength.

A-DYN'A-MY, n. [Gr. {foreign}, privative, and {foreign}, power.]

In medicine, weakness; want of strength occasioned by disease. Morin.

A-DY'TUM, n. [Lat. Gr. {foreign}.]

A secret apartment. In ancient temples a secret place from whence oracles were given.

ADZ, n. [Sax. adese; Sp. azuela; formerly written in Eng. addice.]

An iron instrument with an arching edge, across the line of the handle, and ground from a base on its inside to the outer edge; used for chipping a horizontal surface of timber. Encyc. Æ, a diphthong in the Latin language; used also by the Saxon writers. It answers to the Gr. {foreign}. The Sax. æ has been changed into e or ea. In derivatives from the learned languages, it is mostly superseded by e, and convenience seems to require it to be wholly rejected in anglicized words. For such words as may be found with this initial combination, the reader will therefore search under the letter E. ÆD, or ED, or EAD, syllables found in names from the Saxon, signify happy; as, Eadric, happy kingdom; Eadrig, happy victory; Edward, prosperous watch; Edgar, successful weapon. Gibson. Lye. Æ'DILE, n. [Lat.] In ancient Rome, an officer or magistrate, who had the care of the public buildings, [ædes,] streets, highways, public spectacles, &c. Æ'GIL-OPS, n. [Gr. {foreign}; {foreign}, a goat, and {foreign}, the eye.] A tumor in the corner of the eye, and a plant so called. Quincy. Æ'GIS, n. [Gr. {foreign}, a goat skin, and shield; from {foreign}, a goat.] A shield, or defensive armor. ÆL, or AL, or ALH, or EAL, in Saxon, Eng. all, are seen in many names; as, in Ælfred, Alfred, all peace; Ælwin, all conqueror. Gibson. ÆLF, seems to be one form of help, but more generally written elph or ulph; as, in Ælfwin, victorious aid; Æthelwulph, illustrious help. Gibson.

AE-NE'ID, n.

The heroic poem of Virgil.

AE-O'LI-AN, a.

Pertaining to Lobus.

A-E'O-LIST, n. [L. Æolus.]

A pretender to inspiration. Swift.

AE'O-LUS, n.

The god of the winds.

AE-QUIN'O-LITE, n. [See Pitchstone.]

A'E-RATE, v.t. [See Air.]

To combine with carbonic acid, formerly called fixed air. [The word has been discarded from modern chimistry.]

A'E-RA-TED, pp.

Combined with carbonic acid.

A'E-RAT'ING, ppr.

Combining with carbonic acid.

A-E-RA'TION, n.

The act or operation of combining with carbonic acid.

A-E'RI-AL, a. [L. aërius. See Air.]

1. Belonging to the air, or atmosphere; as, aerial regions.
2. Consisting of air; partaking of the nature of air; as, aerial particles.
3. Produced by air; as, aerial honey. Pope.
4. Inhabiting or frequenting the air; as, aerial songsters.
5. Placed in the air; high; lofty; elevated; as, aerial spires; aerial flight.

A-E'RI-ANS, n.

In Church history, a branch of Arians, so called from Aerius, who maintained, that there is no difference between bishops and priests.

A'E-RIE, n. e'ry. [W. eryr, Corn. er, an eagle.]

The nest of a fowl, as of an eagle or hawk; a covey of birds. Shak.

A-ER-I-FI-CA'TION, n.

1. The act of combining air with; the state of being filled with air. Fourcroy.
2. The act of becoming air or of changing into an aeriform state, as substances which are converted from a liquid or solid form into gas or an elastic vapor; the state of being aeriform. Fourcroy.

A'ER-I-FIED, pp.

Having air infused, or combined with.

A'ER-I-FORM, a. [L. aer, air, and forma, form.]

Having the form or nature of air, or of an elastic, invisible fluid. The gases are aeriform fluids.

A'ER-I-FY, v.t.

To infuse air into; to fill with air, or to combine air with.