Admiration.

Wonder; astonishment.

Relating to or expressing admiration or wonder.

To wonder; to marvel; to be affected with surprise; -- sometimes with at.

Regarded with wonder and delight; highly prized; as, an admired poem.

One who admires; one who esteems or loves greatly.

Expressing admiration; as, an admiring glance.

The quality of being admissible; admissibleness; as, the admissibility of evidence.

Entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable; as, the supposition is hardly admissible.

The act or practice of admitting.

Implying an admission; tending to admit.

Pertaining to admission.

To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.

Admissible.

The reciprocal of impedance.

The certificate of admission given in some American colleges.

Received as true or valid; acknowledged. Confessedly.

One who admits.

To mingle with something else; to mix.

A mingling of different things; admixture.

To warn or notify of a fault; to reprove gently or kindly, but seriously; to exhort.

One who admonishes.

expressing adverse criticism as a corrective

Admonition.

Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning.

Admonisher.

Admonitory.

Admonisher; monitor.

Admonitory.

That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance.

A female admonitor.

The reducing or lands or tenements to mortmain. See Mortmain.

To move or conduct to or toward.

Growing to or on something else.

Grown to congenitally.

The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.

Pertaining to an adnoun; adjectival; attached to a noun.

An adjective, or attribute.

Clouded; obscured.

To do; in doing; as, there is nothing ado.

An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.

a California herb (Fritillaria pluriflora) with pinkish purple flowers.

a Philippine dish of marinated vegetables and meat or fish; served with rice.

The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness.

A youth.

A Hebrew name for God, usually translated in the Old Testament by the word /Lord/.

Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic.

Relating to Adonis, famed for his beauty. An Adonic verse.

A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.

One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word translated /Jehovah/ are really the vowel points of the word /Adonai./ See Jehovist.

To beautify; to dandify.

To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.

Capable of being adopted.

Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word.

One who adopts.

The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.

One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.

Adopted.

Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language.

Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors.

The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration.

In an adorable manner.

The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god.

To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as a deity or as divine.

To adorn.

The act of adoring; adoration.

One who adores; a worshiper; one who admires or loves greatly; an ardent admirer.

feeling or showing profound respect or veneration. Opposite of irreverent.

With adoration.

Adorned; decorated.

Adornment.

He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier.

By adorning; decoratively.

An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.

Impregnation by external contact, without intromission.

Down.

See Appressed.

Put in dread; afraid.

Gum tragacanth.

To dread.

Visited by a dream; -- used in the phrase, To be adreamed, to dream.

Suprarenal.

a hormone secreted by the adrenal medulla that acts as a powerful stimulant in reponse to fear or stress; it stimulates autonomic nerve action. It can be obtained as a crystalline substance, C9H13NO3. It is used in medicine as a vasoconstrictor (hemostatic) and cardiac stimulant, also to reduce allergic reactions and to stimulate the heart in cases of cardiac arrest.

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producing or activated by epinephrine or adrenaline

of or pertaining to the adrenal cortex.

stimulating or acting on the adrenal cortex

a growth hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland; it stimulates the adrenal cortex.

a steroid having androgenic activity; obtained from the cortex of the adrenal gland.

Pertaining to the Adriatic Sea; as, Adrian billows.

a city in Northwest Turkey; a Thracian town that was rebuilt and renamed by the Roman emperor Hadrian.

a city in Northwest Turkey; a Thracian town that was rebuilt and renamed by the Roman emperor Hadrian.

Of or pertaining to a sea so named, the northwestern part of which is known as the Gulf of Venice.

Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.

In a dripping state; as, leaves all adrip.

To adopt (a person who is his own master).

A kind of adoption in ancient Rome. See Arrogation.

Dexterous in the use of the hands or in the exercise of the mental faculties; exhibiting skill and readiness in avoiding danger or escaping difficulty; ready in invention or execution; -- applied to persons and to acts; as, an adroit mechanic, an adroit reply.

In an adroit manner.

The quality of being adroit; skill and readiness; dexterity.

In a dry or thirsty condition.

Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious.

One held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf.

Attached or annexed to the glebe or estate and transferable with it.

Additional signification.

To denote additionally.

to attract and bind (molecules of a substance in a fluid) so as to form a thin layer on the surface, by non-electrostatic forces; to bind by adsorption. Distinguished from absorb, in which the foreign substance penetrates the body of the absorbing material.

the process by which molecules of a substance form a thin film on the surface of a solid. Distinguished from absorption, in which the foreign substance penetrates the body of the absorbing material.

having capacity or tendency to adsorb or cause to accumulate on a surface; displaying adsorption.

See Astrict, and Astriction.

See Astrictory.

See Astringent.

A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone.

To flatter in a servile way.

Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited.

A servile or hypocritical flatterer.

Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address.

A woman who flatters with servility.

A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity.