A descendant of Adam; a human being.
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Dancing.
Dangling.
A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, Adansonia digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and Adansonia Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth.
a demigod or first man: "seed of mankind"; sometimes identified with Adam.
extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; their descendents probably include the lemurs and lorises; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins.
To make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as to fit for a new use; -- sometimes followed by to or for.
Capable of being adapted.
The quality of being adaptable; suitableness.
The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness.
having a capacity for adaptation. Opposed to maladaptive.
Adaptive.
The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.
One who adapts.
Adaptation.
Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting.
an optical system used in some telescopes since the 1980's which rapidly changes the shape of the primary reflecting mirror to adjust for distortions of light which are caused by atmospheric turbulence. By reducing the distortions caused by the atmosphere, telescopes fitted with such optics can achieve a higher resolving power than normal telescopes with static mirrors.
the evolutionary generation of multiple specialized life forms from one ancestral form, evidenced in the fossil record. The inverse of extinction.
The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.
In a suitable manner.
Adaptedness.
Adaptive.
The twelfth month of the Hebrew ecclesiastical year, and the sixth of the civil. It corresponded nearly with March.
A saltish concretion on reeds and grass in marshy grounds in Galatia. It is soft and porous, and was formerly used for cleansing the skin from freckles and tetters, and also in leprosy.
A fine cotton cloth of India.
To daunt; to subdue; to mitigate.
To awaken; to arouse.
By day, or every day; in the daytime.
To make an addition. To add to, to augment; to increase; as, it adds to our anxiety.
Addible.
One of the largest African antelopes (Hippotragusnasomaculatus or Oryx nasomaculatus).
being in addition [to something else]
To award; to adjudge.
a number that is added to another number.
A thing to be added; an appendix or addition.
A serpent.
A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet.
The common bistort or snakeweed (Polygonum bistorta).
The quantity of being addible; capability of addition.
Capable of being added.
See Adze.
To apply habitually; to devote; to habituate; -- with to.
The quality or state of being addicted; attachment.
The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination.
The capital city of Ethiopia. Population (2000) = 2,200,186.
An addition, or a thing added.
The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution.
Something added.
By way of addition.
Additional.
Additive.
Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.
Tending to add; making some addition.
To earn by labor.
A foolish or dull-witted fellow.
Dull-witted; stupid.
Stupidity.
Earnings.
To adjudge.
Set or turned back to back.
To prepare one's self.
marked with a destination; -- of mail
One to whom anything is addressed.
The act of addressing or directing one's course.
a printer that automatically prints addresses on letters for mailing.
To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
Bringing together or towards a given point; -- a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. Opposed to abducent.
One who adduces.
Capable of being adduced.
To draw towards a common center or a middle line.
The act of adducing or bringing forward.
Adducing, or bringing towards or to something.
A muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body; -- opposed to abductor; as, the adductor of the eye, which turns the eye toward the nose.
To sweeten; to soothe.
To revoke, as a legacy, grant, etc., or to satisfy it by some other gift.
A Spanish red wine made of the first ripe grapes.
A governor of a province; a commander.
A provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus.
Same as Atheling.
Applied to sexual zooids of hydroids, that have a saclike form and do not become free; -- opposed to phanerocodonic.
An animal having feet that are not apparent.
A /brotherhood,/ or collection of stamens in a bundle; -- used in composition, as in the class names, Monadelphia, Diadelphia, etc.
Having coalescent or clustered filaments; -- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. Usually in composition; as, monadelphous.
Taken away.
The revocation or taking away of a grant, donation, legacy, or the like.
Pain in a gland. Called also adenodynia
Shaped like a gland; adenoid.
Glandular inflammation.
Glandular inflammation.
Pertaining to adenography.
That part of anatomy which describes the glands.
Of or relating to a gland.
Glandlike; glandular.
Pertaining to adenology.
The part of physiology that treats of the glands.
A benign tumor of epithelial tissue with a glandlike structure.
Pathological enlargement of a lymph node.
Producing glands.
Having glands on the leaves.
The hardening of a gland.
Like a gland; full of glands; glandulous; adenous.
Pertaining to adenotomy.
Dissection of, or incision into, a gland or glands.
Same as Adenose.
Animal fat; lard.
Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.
An obtaining; attainment.
A skilled alchemist.
The quality of being adept; skill.
The state or quality of being adequate, proportionate, or sufficient; a sufficiency for a particular purpose; as, the adequacy of supply to the expenditure.
To equalize; to make adequate.
In an adequate manner.
The quality of being adequate; suitableness; sufficiency; adequacy.
The act of equalizing; act or result of making adequate; an equivalent.
The division or defective coherence of an organ that is usually entire.
One who held the real presence of Christ's body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation.
See Affected, 5.
See Affiliated.
See Affiliation.
See Affluxion.
Clinging, as by hooks.
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