Webster's Dictionary 1828

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ADDLE

AD'DLE, adjective [Heb. to fail.]In a morbid state; putrid; applied to eggs.Hence, barren, producing nothing.His brains grow addle

731

ADDLE-PATED

AD'DLE-PATED, adjective Having empty brains.

732

ADDLED

AD'DLED, adjective Morbid, corrupt, putrid, or barren.

733

ADDOOM

ADDOOM', verb transitive [See Doom.] To adjudge.

734

ADDORSED

ADDORS'ED, adjective [Latin ad and dorsum, the back.]In heraldry, having the backs turned to each other, as beasts.

735

ADDRESS

ADDRESS', verb transitive [This is supposed to be from Latin dirigo.]1. To prepare; to make suitable dispositions for.Turnus addressed his men to single fight.2. To direct words...

736

ADDRESSED

ADDRESS'ED, participle passive Spoken or applied to; directed; courted; consigned.

737

ADDRESSER

ADDRESS'ER, noun One who addresses or petitions.

738

ADDRESSING

ADDRESS'ING, participle present tense Speaking or applying to, directing; courting; consigning.

739

ADDUCE

ADDU'CE, verb transitive [Latin adduco, to lead or bring to; ad and duco, to lead. See Duke.]1. To bring forward, present or offer; as, a witness was adduced to prove the fact.2...

740

ADDUCED

ADDU'CED, participle passive Brought forward; cited; alledged in argument.

741

ADDUCENT

ADDU'CENT, adjective Bringing forward, or together; a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. [See adductor.]

742

ADDUCIBLE

ADDU'CIBLE, adjective That may be adduced.

743

ADDUCING

ADDU'CING, participle present tense Bringing forward; citing in argument.

744

ADDUCTION

ADDUC'TIONnoun The act of bringing forward.

745

ADDUCTIVE

ADDUC'TIVE, adjective That brings forward.

746

ADDUCTOR

ADDUC'TOR, noun [Latin]A muscle which draws one part of the body towards another; as the adductor oculi, which turns the eye towards the nose; the adductor pollicis manus, which...

747

ADDULCE

ADDULCE, verb transitive adduls'. [Latin ad and dulcis, sweet.]To sweeten. [Not used.]

748

ADEB

AD'EB, noun An Egyptian weight of 210 okes, each of three rotolos, which is a weight of about two drams less than the English pound. But at Rosetta, the adeb is only 150 okes.

749

ADEL

ATHEL, ADEL or AETHEL, nobel of illustrious birth.

750

ADELANTADO

ADELANTA'DO, noun A governor of a province; a lieutenant governor.

751

ADELING

AD'ELING, noun a title of honor given by our Saxon ancestors to the children of princes, and to young nobles. It is composed of adel, or rather athel, the Teutonic term for nobl...

752

ADELITE

AD'ELITE, noun adelites or Almogenens, in Spain, were conjurers, who predicted the fortunes of individuals by the flight and singing of birds, and other accidental circumstances.

753

ADEMPTION

ADEMP'TION, noun [Latin adimo, to take away; of ad and emo, to take.]In the civil law, the revocation of a grant, donation, or the like.

754

ADENOGRAPHY

ADENOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. a gland, and to describe.]That part of anatomy which treats of the glands.

755

ADENOID

AD'ENOID, adjective [Gr. a gland, and form.]In the form of a gland; glandiform; glandulous; applied to the prostate glands.

756

ADENOLOGICAL

ADENOLOG'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to the doctrine of the glands.