n. [ Cf. Ajutage. ] Adjustment. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Ajutage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. avantage, avauntage, F. avantage, fr. avant before. See Advance, and cf. Vantage. ] 1. Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give me advantage of some brief discourse. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The advantages of a close alliance. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lest Satan should get an advantage of us. 2 Cor. ii. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen). [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And with advantage means to pay thy love. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Tennis) The first point scored after deuce. [ PJC ]

Advantage ground, vantage ground. [ R. ] Clarendon. --
To have the advantage of (any one), to have a personal knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge. “You have the advantage of me; I don't remember ever to have had the honor.” Sheridan. --
To take advantage of, to profit by; (often used in a bad sense) to overreach, to outwit. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Advantage, Advantageous, Benefit, Beneficial. We speak of a thing as a benefit, or as beneficial, when it is simply productive of good; as, the benefits of early discipline; the beneficial effects of adversity. We speak of a thing as an advantage, or as advantageous, when it affords us the means of getting forward, and places us on a “vantage ground” for further effort. Hence, there is a difference between the benefits and the advantages of early education; between a beneficial and an advantageous investment of money. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Advantaged p. pr. & vb. n. Advantaging ] [ F. avantager, fr. avantage. See Advance. ] To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit. [ 1913 Webster ]

The truth is, the archbishop's own stiffness and averseness to comply with the court designs, advantaged his adversaries against him. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

What is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? Luke ix. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]

To advantage one's self of, to avail one's self of. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Advantageous. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. avantageux, fr. avantage. ] Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Advabtageous comparison with any other country. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

You see . . . of what use a good reputation is, and how swift and advantageous a harbinger it is, wherever one goes. Chesterfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Profitably; with advantage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Profitableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Aftergrass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. agiotage, fr. agioter to practice stockjobbing, fr. agio. ] Exchange business; also, stockjobbing; the maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds. [ 1913 Webster ]

Vanity and agiotage are to a Parisian the oxygen and hydrogen of life. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ajutage, for ajoutage, fr. ajouter to add, LL. adjuxtare, fr. L. ad + juxta near to, nigh. Cf. Adjutage, Adjustage, Adjust. ] A tube through which water is discharged; an efflux tube; as, the ajutage of a fountain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Anecdotes collectively; a collection of anecdotes. [ 1913 Webster ]

All history, therefore, being built partly, and some of it altogether, upon anecdotage, must be a tissue of lies. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. attagen a kind of bird, Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;. ] (Zool.) A species of sand grouse (Syrrghaptes Pallasii) found in Asia and rarely in southern Europe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (theater) the area on the stage out of sight of the audience.
Syn. -- wing, wings, offstage. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. concealed from the public; in private.
Syn. -- behind the scenes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Law) A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ballottage. ] In France, a second ballot taken after an indecisive first ballot to decide between two or several candidates; a runoff election. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. 1. State or rank of a baronet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The collective body of baronets. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Conveyance by boat; also, a charge for such conveyance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. cabotage, fr. caboter to sail along the coast; cf. Sp. cabo cape. ] (Naut.) Navigation along the coast; the details of coast pilotage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of carrying in a cart. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The price paid for carting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Rate by the hundred; percentage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. State of being client. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A body of clients. E. Everett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] The distribution of religious books, tracts, etc., by colporteurs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. coustage. ] Expense; cost. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Cot a cottage. ] A small house; a cot; a hut. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The term was formerly limited to a habitation for the poor, but is now applied to any small tasteful dwelling; and at places of summer resort, to any residence or lodging house of rustic architecture, irrespective of size. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cottage allotment. See under Alloment. [ Eng. ] --
Cottage cheese, the thick part of clabbered milk strained, salted, and pressed into a ball. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Set or covered with cottages. [ 1913 Webster ]

Even humble Harting's cottaged vale. Collins. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Cottagelike; suitable for a cottage; rustic. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who lives in a cottage. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) One who lives on the common, without paying any rent, or having land of his own. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. counterintelligence designed to detect and counteract sabotage. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette; the act of scraping with a curette.
Syn. -- curettement. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ F. See Décolleté. ] (Costume) 1. The upper border or part of a low-cut (i.e., décolleté) dress. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

2. The exposed upper parts of the breasts of a woman wearing a low-cut dress; as, transfixed by her stunning decolletage. [ PJC ]

n. [ Cf. F. désavantage. ] 1. Deprivation of advantage; unfavorable or prejudicial quality, condition, circumstance, or the like; that which hinders success, or causes loss or injury. [ 1913 Webster ]

I was brought here under the disadvantage of being unknown by sight to any of you. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Abandoned by their great patron, the faction henceforward acted at disadvantage. Palfrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Loss; detriment; hindrance; prejudice to interest, fame, credit, profit, or other good. [ 1913 Webster ]

They would throw a construction on his conduct, to his disadvantage before the public. Bancroft.

Syn. -- Detriment; injury; hurt; loss; damage. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. F. désavantager. ] To injure the interest of; to be detrimental to. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Injurious; disadvantageous. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. désavantageux. ] Attended with disadvantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial; -- opposed to advantageous; as, the situation of an army is disadvantageous for attack or defense. [ 1913 Webster ]

Even in the disadvantageous position in which he had been placed, he gave clear indications of future excellence. Prescott.

-- Dis*ad`van*ta"geous*ly, adv. -- Dis*ad`van*ta"geous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. dis- + vantage. ] Disadvantageous. [ Obs. ] “Disadvantageous ground.” Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Dote, v. i. ] 1. Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Capable of distinguishing between the infancy and the dotage of Greek literature. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Foolish utterance; drivel. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sapless dotages of old Paris and Salamanca. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection. [ 1913 Webster ]

The dotage of the nation on presbytery. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Theater) the front half of a stage. Opposite of upstage. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. (Theater) of or pertaining to the front half of a stage. Opposite of upstage. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. (Theater) at the front half of the stage; as, the dialog is clearer when conducted downstage. Opposite of upstage. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything that drifts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Eatable growth of grass for horses and cattle, esp. that of aftermath. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Hermitage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The right of succeeding to an escheat. Sherwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. étager to arrange on shelves, fr. étage story, floor. See Stage. ] A piece of furniture having a number of uninclosed shelves or stages, one above another, for receiving articles of elegance or use. Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Flotage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. flotage, F. flottage, fr. flotter to float. ] 1. The state of floating. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which floats on the sea or in rivers. [ Written also floatage. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Cinematography) 1. the amount of film that has been shot. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a rate of charging by the linear foot of work done. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. forestage. ] (O. Eng. Law) (a) A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters. (b) A service paid by foresters to the king. [ 1913 Webster ]