Adsuki bean
Ad‐su″ki bean (?). [Jap. adzuki.] A cultivated variety of the Asiatic gram, now introduced into the United States.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Adularia
‖Ad′u‐la″ri‐a (�), n. [From Adula, a mountain peak in Switzerland, where fine specimens are found.] (Min.) A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase...
Adulate
Ad″u‐late (�), v. t. [L. adulatus, p. p. of adulari.] To flatter in a servile way. Byron.
Adulation
Ad′u‐la″tion (�), n. [F. adulation, fr. L. adulatio, fr. adulari, adulatum, to flatter.] Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited.Think'st thou the fiery fe...
Adulator
Ad″u‐la′tor (�), n. [L., fr. adulari: cf. F. adulateur.] A servile or hypocritical flatterer. Carlyle.
Adulatory
Ad″u‐la‐to‐ry (�), a. [L. adulatorius, fr. adulari: cf. OF. adulatoire.] Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address.A me...
Adulatress
Ad″u‐la′tress (�), n. A woman who flatters with servility.
Adult
A‐dult″ (�), a. [L. adultus, p. p. of adolescere, akin to alere to nourish: cf. F. adulte. See Adolescent, Old.] Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; mature...
Adult (2)
A‐dult″, n. A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity.☞ In the common law, the term is applied to a person who has attained full a...
Adulter
A‐dul″ter (�), v. i. [L. adulterare.] To commit adultery; to pollute. B. Jonson.
Adulterant
A‐dul″ter‐ant (�), n. [L. adulterans, p. pr. of adulterare.] That which is used to adulterate anything. — a. Adulterating; as, adulterant agents and processes.
Adulterate
A‐dul″ter‐ate (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Adulterated (�); p. pr. & vb. n.Adulterating (�).] [L. adulteratus, p. p. of adulterare, fr. adulter adulterer, prob. fr. ad + alter other,...
Adulterate (2)
A‐dul″ter‐ate, v. i. To commit adultery.
Adulterate (3)
A‐dul″ter‐ate (�), a. 1. Tainted with adultery.2. Debased by the admixture of a foreign substance; adulterated; spurious.— A‐dul″ter‐ate‐ly, adv. — A‐dul″ter‐ate‐ness, n.
Adulteration
A‐dul′ter‐a″tion (�), n. [L. adulteratio.] 1. The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture.The shameless adulteration of the coi...
Adulterator
A‐dul″ter‐a′tor (�), n. One who adulterates or corrupts. Cudworth.
Adulterer
A‐dul″ter‐er (�), n. [Formed fr. the verb adulter, with the E. ending -er. See Advoutrer.] 1. A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman n...
Adulteress
A‐dul″ter‐ess (�), n. [Fem. from L. adulter. Cf. Advoutress.] 1. A woman who commits adultery.2. (Script.) A woman who violates her religious engagements. James iv. 4.
Adulterine
A‐dul″ter‐ine (�), a. [L. adulterinus, fr. adulter.] Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal.When any particular class of ar...
Adulterine (2)
A‐dul″ter‐ine, n. An illegitimate child.
Adulterize
A‐dul″ter‐ize (�), v. i. To commit adultery. Milton.
Adulterous
A‐dul″ter‐ous (�), a. 1. Guilty of, or given to, adultery; pertaining to adultery; illicit. Dryden.2. Characterized by adulteration; spurious. “An adulterous mixture.” Smollett.
Adulterously
A‐dul″ter‐ous‐ly, adv. In an adulterous manner.
Adultery
A‐dul″ter‐y (�), n.; pl.Adulteries(�). [L. adulterium. See Advoutry.] 1. The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with ano...
Adultness
A‐dult″ness (�), n. The state of being adult.
Adumbrant
Ad‐um″brant (�), a. [L. adumbrans, p. pr. of adumbrare.] Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth.
Adumbrate
Ad‐um″brate (�), v. t. [L. adumbratus, p. p. of adumbrare; ad + umbrare to shade; umbra shadow.]1. To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow fort...