Adambulacral
Ad′am‐bu‐la″cral (�), a. [L. ad + E. ambulacral.] (Zoöl.) Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Adamic
{ A‐dam″ic (�), A‐dam″ic‐al (�), } a. Of or pertaining to Adam, or resembling him.Adamic earth, a name given to common red clay, from a notion that Adam means red earth.
Adamite
Ad″am‐ite (�), n. [From Adam.] 1. A descendant of Adam; a human being.2. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the ...
Adance
A‐dance″ (�), adv. Dancing. Lowell.
Adangle
A‐dan″gle (�), adv. Dangling. Browning.
Adansonia
‖Ad′an‐so″ni‐a (�), n. [From Adanson, a French botanist.] (Bot.) A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of ...
Adapt
A‐dapt″ (�), a. Fitted; suited. Swift.
Adapt (2)
A‐dapt″, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Adapted; p. pr. & vb. n.Adapting.] [L. adaptare; ad + aptare to fit; cf. F. adapter. See Apt, Adept.] To make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; t...
Adaptability
{ A‐dapt′a‐bil″i‐ty (�), A‐dapt″a‐ble‐ness (�), } n. The quality of being adaptable; suitableness. “General adaptability for every purpose.” Farrar.
Adaptable
A‐dapt″a‐ble (�), a. Capable of being adapted.
Adaptation
Ad′ap‐ta″tion (�), n. [Cf. F. adaptation, LL. adaptatio.] 1. The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. “Adaptation of the mea...
Adaptative
A‐dapt″a‐tive (�), a. Adaptive. Stubbs.
Adaptedness
A‐dapt″ed‐ness (�), n. The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.
Adapter
A‐dapt″er (�), n. 1. One who adapts.2. (Chem.) A connecting tube; an adopter.
Adaption
A‐dap″tion (�), n. Adaptation. Cheyne.
Adaptive
A‐dapt″ive (�), a. Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting. Coleridge. — A‐dapt″ive‐ly, adv.
Adaptiveness
A‐dapt″ive‐ness, n. The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.
Adaptly
A‐dapt″ly, adv. In a suitable manner. Prior.
Adaptness
A‐dapt″ness, n. Adaptedness.
Adaptorial
Ad′ap‐to″ri‐al (�), a. Adaptive.
Adar
‖A″dar (�), n. [Heb. adär.] The twelfth month of the Hebrew ecclesiastical year, and the sixth of the civil. It corresponded nearly with March.
Adarce
‖A‐dar″ce (�), n. [L. adarce, adarca, Gr. �.] A saltish concretion on reeds and grass in marshy grounds in Galatia. It is soft and porous, and was formerly used for cleansing th...
Adatis
‖Ad″a‐tis (�), n. A fine cotton cloth of India.
Adaunt
A‐daunt″ (�), v. t. [OE. adaunten to overpower, OF. adonter; à (L. ad) + donter, F. dompter. See Daunt.] To daunt; to subdue; to mitigate. Skelton.
Adaw
A‐daw″ (�), v. t. [Cf. OE. adawe of dawe, AS. of dagum from days, i.e., from life, out of life.] To subdue; to daunt.The sight whereof did greatly him adaw.Spenser.
Adaw (2)
A‐daw″, v. t. & i. [OE. adawen to wake; pref. a- (cf. Goth. us-, Ger. er-) + dawen, dagon, to dawn. See Daw.] To awaken; to arouse.A man that waketh of his sleepHe may not sudde...
Adays
A‐days″ (�), adv. [Pref. a- (for on) + day; the final s was orig. a genitive ending, afterwards forming adverbs.] By day, or every day; in the daytime. Fielding.