Dictionary: AF-FLICT'IVE – AF-FREIGHT'ER

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AF-FLICT'IVE, a.

Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; painful; distressing. – Hall.

AF-FLICT'IVE-LY, adv.

In a manner to give pain or grief. – Brown.

AF'FLU-ENCE, n. [L. affluentia, of ad and fluo, to flow. See Flow.]

  1. Literally, a flowing to, or concourse. In this sense it rarely used. It is sometimes written affluency.
  2. Figuratively, abundance of riches; great plenty of worldly goods; wealth. – Rogers.

AF'FLU-ENT, a.

Flowing to; more generally, wealthy; abounding in goods or riches; abundant. Prior.

AF'FLU-ENT-LY, adv.

In abundance; abundantly.

AF'FLUX, n. [L. affluxum, from affluo. See Flow.]

The act of flowing to; a flowing to, or that which flows to; as, an afflux of blood to the head.

AF-FLUX'ION, n.

The act of flowing to; that which flows to. [See Afflux.]

AF'FOR-AGE, n. [Fr. afforer, to value. See Affeer.]

In France, a duty paid to the lord of a district, for permission to sell wine or other liquors, within his seignory. – Encyc.

AF-FORCE'MENT, n. [ad and force.]

In old charters, a fortress; a fortification for defense. [Obs.] – Cyc.

AF-FORD', v.t. [ad and the root of forth, further; G. fördern, to further or promote; D. voorderen; Dan. befordrer, to further. The sense is to send forth. But I have not found this precise word in the exact sense of the English, in any other language.]

  1. To yield or produce as fruit, profit, issues, or result. Thus, the earth affords grain; a well affords water; trade affords profit; distilled liquors afford spirit.
  2. To yield, grant, or confer; as, a good life affords consolation in old age.
  3. To be able to grant or sell with profit or without loss; as, A can afford wine at a less price than B.
  4. To be able to expend without injury to one's estate; as, a man can afford a sum yearly in charity; or be able to bear expenses, or the price of the thing purchased; as, one man can afford to buy a farm, which another can not.
  5. To be able without loss or with profit. The merchant can afford to trade for smaller profits. – Hamilton.

AF-FORD'ED, pp.

Yielded as fruit, produce or result; sold without loss or with profit.

AF-FOR'DING, ppr.

Yielding; producing; selling without loss; bearing expenses.

AF-FOR'EST, v.t. [ad and forest.]

To convert ground into forest, as was done by the first Norman kings in England, for the purpose of affording them the pleasures of the chase.

AF-FOR-EST-A'TION, n.

The act of turning ground into forest or wood land. – Blackstone.

AF-FOR'EST-ED, pp.

Converted into forest.

AF-FOR'EST-ING, ppr.

Converting into forest.

AF-FRAN'CHISE, v.t.

To make free.

AF-FRAN'CHIS-ED, pp.

Made free.

AF-FRAN'CHISE-MENT, n. [See Franchise and Disfranchise.]

The act of making free, or liberating from dependence or servitude. [Little used.]

AF-FRAN'CHIS-ING, ppr.

Making free.

AF-FRAP', v.t. [Fr. frapper, to strike; Eng. rap.]

To strike. [Obs.] – Spenser.

AF-FRAY', or AF-FRAY'MENT, n. [Fr. effrayer, to frighten; effroi, terror; Arm. effreyza, effrey.]

  1. In law, the fighting of two or more persons, in a public place, to the terror of others. A fighting in private is not, in a legal sense, an affray. – Blackstone.
  2. In popular language, fray is used to express any fighting of two or more persons; but the word is now deemed inelegant.
  3. Tumult; disturbance. – Spenser.

AF-FREIGHT', v.t. [affra'te; See Freight.]

To hire a ship for the transportation of goods or freight. Commerce.

AF-FREIGHT'ED, pp.

Hired for transporting goods.

AF-FREIGHT'ER, n.

The person who hires or charters a ship or other vessel to convey goods. – Walsh, Am. Rev.