One who makes much or overmuch of /sthetics.

Of or Pertaining to /sthetics; versed in /sthetics; as, /sthetic studies, emotions, ideas, persons, etc.

One versed in /sthetics.

The doctrine of /sthetics; /sthetic principles; devotion to the beautiful in nature and art.

The science of sensation in relation to nervous action.

Of or belonging to the summer; as, /stival diseases.

To spend the summer.

The state of torpidity induced by the heat and dryness of summer, as in certain snails; -- opposed to hibernation.

See Estuary.

Glowing; agitated, as with heat.

Propagated in an unusual way; cryptogamous.

See Ether.

A compound of nitrogen and boro/, which, when heated before the blowpipe, gives a brilliant phosphorescent; boric nitride.

An instrument consisting in part of a differential thermometer. It is used for measuring changes of temperature produced by different conditions of the sky, as when clear or clouded.

Pertaining to /tiology; pertaining to the cause; assigning a cause.

The science, doctrine, or demonstration of causes; esp., the investigation of the causes of any disease; the science of the origin and development of things; etiology.

See Eaglestone.

At, to, or from a great distance; far away; -- often used with from preceding, or off following; as, he was seen from afar; I saw him afar off.

Afraid.

The southwest wind.

The quality of being affable; readiness to converse; courteousness in receiving others and in conversation; complaisant behavior.

Easy to be spoken to or addressed; receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; courteous; sociable.

Affability.

In an affable manner; courteously.

Executed in a workmanlike manner; ingeniously made.

That which is done or is to be done; matter; concern; as, a difficult affair to manage; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public; -- often in the plural. /At the head of affairs./ Junius.

To afflict with, or perish from, hunger.

Starvation.

To infatuate.

To frighten.

Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.

An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show.

One who exhibits affectation.

Regarded with affection; beloved.

In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than reality.

Affectation.

One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after.

The quality or state of being affectible.

That may be affected.

Moving the emotions; fitted to excite the emotions; pathetic; touching; as, an affecting address; an affecting sight.

In an affecting manner; is a manner to excite emotions.

The act of affecting or acting upon; the state of being affected.

Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature.

Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother.

Disposed; inclined.

With affection; lovingly; fondly; tenderly; kindly.

The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection.

Disposed.

Tending to affect; affecting.

In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.

Full of passion or emotion; earnest.

To confirm; to assure.

The act of affeering.

One who affeers.

Bearing or conducting inwards to a part or organ; -- opposed to efferent; as, afferent vessels; afferent nerves, which convey sensations from the external organs to the brain.

With feeling.

Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise.

To betroth; to pledge one's faith to for marriage, or solemnly promise (one's self or another) in marriage.

One who makes a contract of marriage between two persons.

One who makes an affidavit.

A sworn statement in writing; a declaration in writing, signed and made upon oath before an authorized magistrate.

To polish.

Capable of being affiliated to or on, or connected with in origin.

To connect or associate one's self; -- followed by with; as, they affiliate with no party.

being joined in close association

Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.

Related by marriage; from the same source.

To refine.

Joined in affinity or by any tie.

Of the nature of affinity.

Closely connected, as by affinity.

To declare or assert positively.

Capable of being affirmed, asserted, or declared; -- followed by of; as, an attribute affirmable of every just man.

Confirmation; ratification; confirmation of a voidable act.

One who affirms or asserts.

Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law.

That which affirms as opposed to that which denies; an affirmative proposition; that side of question which affirms or maintains the proposition stated; -- opposed to negative; as, there were forty votes in the affirmative, and ten in the negative.

a policy of making active efforts to improve the employment or educational opportunities available to members of minority groups or women; -- achieved by employers or schools by using various techniques, but excluding the use of simple quotas or outright discrimination against white males.

In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.

Giving affirmation; assertive; affirmative.

One who affirms.

That which is affixed; an appendage; esp. one or more letters or syllables added at the end of a word; a suffix; a postfix.

of or pertaining to an affix.

attached physically. Opposite of unaffixed.

of or pertaining to an affix.

Affixture.

The act of affixing, or the state of being affixed; attachment.

A blowing or breathing on; inspiration.

A breath or blast of wind.

Afflicted.

The state of being afflicted; affliction.

One who afflicts.

Grievously painful; distressing; afflictive; as, an afflicting event. -- Af*flict"ing*ly, adv.

The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief.

Free from affliction.

Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing.

In an afflictive manner.

A flowing to or towards; a concourse; an influx.

Affluence.

A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream.

Abundantly; copiously.

Great plenty.

A flowing towards; that which flows to; as, an afflux of blood to the head.

The act of flowing towards; afflux.

Asphodel.

To re/nforce; to strengthen.

A fortress; a fortification for defense.

See Afforcement.

To give 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.

To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country.

The act of converting into forest or woodland.

An affix.

To make free; to enfranchise.

The act of making free; enfranchisement.

To strike, or strike down.

The act of suddenly disturbing any one; an assault or attack.

One engaged in an affray.

Affray.