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.

Adorableness.

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.

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.

To commit adultery; to pollute.

That which is used to adulterate anything. Adulterating; as, adulterant agents and processes.

Tainted with adultery.

having been made impure by addition of inferior ingredients; -- said of substances or foods

making impure or corrupt by virtue of extraneous origin; -- of impurities.

The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture.

One who adulterates or corrupts.

A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.

A woman who commits adultery.

An illegitimate child.

To commit adultery.

Guilty of, or given to, adultery; pertaining to adultery; illicit.

In an adulterous manner.

The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband.

The state of being adult.

Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth.

The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth.

Faintly representing; typical.

A uniting; union.

Curvature inwards; hookedness.

Curved inwards; hooked.

Hooked; as, a parrot has an adunc bill.

To burn up.

Either of two compounds, a chlorine derivative and bromine derivative, of hydroquinone, used as developers.

Inflamed or scorched; dried or darkened by heat.

Burnt; adust.

That may be burnt.

The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried.

Before in place, or beforehand in time; -- used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army; advance payment, or that made before it is due; advance proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in advance of the time of publication.

In the van or front.

The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning.

One who advances; a promoter.

Tending to advance.

To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit.

Advantageous.

Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation.

Profitably; with advantage.