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.

Profitableness.

To accede, or come (to); to be added to something or become a part of it, though not essential.

Coming from outward causes; superadded.

The period including the four Sundays before Christmas.

any Christian religion that believes the second coming of Christ is imminent.

One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second Adventists.

the membranous outer covering of an organ or blood vessel.

of or pertaining to adventitia.

Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent.

A thing or person coming from without; an immigrant.

Relating to the season of advent.

To try the chance; to take the risk.

Given to adventure.

Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome.

A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.

recklessness in politics or foreign affairs.

of or pertaining to adventurism.

Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons.

In an adventurous manner; venturesomely; boldly; daringly.

The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness.

A word used to modify the sense of a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white.

Of or pertaining to an adverb; of the nature of an adverb; as, an adverbial phrase or form.

The quality of being adverbial.

To give the force or form of an adverb to.

In the manner of an adverb.

A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes.

Opposed; opposite; adverse; antagonistic.

An adversative word.

To oppose; to resist.

In an adverse manner; inimically; unfortunately; contrariwise.

The quality or state of being adverse; opposition.

Having opposite leaves, as plants which have the leaves so arranged on the stem.

A turning towards; attention.

Opposition; contrariety.

To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said.

Attentive; heedful; regardful.

To give notice to; to inform or apprise; to notify; to make known; hence, to warn; -- often followed by of before the subject of information; as, to advertise a man of his loss.

called to public attention.

The act of informing or notifying; notification.

One who, or that which, advertises.

a communication publicly promoting some product or service.

same as advertise.

An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel.

a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicine used to relieve the pain of arthritis and as an analgesic and antipyretic; Advil and Motrin and Nuprin are trademarks of brands of ibuprofen tablets.

The quality of being advisable; advisableness.

Proper to be advised or to be done; expedient; prudent.

The quality of being advisable or expedient; expediency; advisability.

With advice; wisely.

To consider; to deliberate.

Carefully thought out; likely to be the best course; -- said of actions. Often used in combination; as, ill-advised, well-advised.

Circumspectly; deliberately; leisurely.

Deliberate consideration; prudent procedure; caution.

One who advises.

The office of an adviser.

Advice; counsel; suggestion; also, a dispatch or advice boat.

Having power to advise; containing advice; as, an advisory council; their opinion is merely advisory.

give bad advice to

The act of pleading for or supporting; work of advocating; intercession.

To act as advocate.

Office or duty of an advocate.

The act of advocating or pleading; plea; advocacy.

Of or pertaining to an advocate.

To summon; to call.

A rolling toward something.

An adulterer.

An adulteress.

One who has an advowson.

The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.]

Adultery.

See Avoyer.

Award.

Considerable debility of the vital powers; asthenia.

Pertaining to, or characterized by adynamia; weak.

Adynamia.

The innermost sanctuary or shrine in ancient temples, whence oracles were given. Hence: A private chamber; a sanctum.

To cut with an adz.

A carpenter's or cooper's tool, formed with a thin arching blade set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood.

A form of fruit in the cycle of development of the Rusts or Brands, an order of fungi, formerly considered independent plants.

A magistrate in ancient Rome, who had the superintendence of public buildings, highways, shows, etc.; hence, a municipal officer.

The office of an /dile.

Of or pertaining to the sea, or arm of the Mediterranean sea, east of Greece. See Archipelago.

Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls.

An ulcer or fistula in the inner corner of the eye.

A shield or protective armor; -- applied in mythology to the shield of Jupiter which he gave to Minerva. Also fig.: A shield; a protection.

Same as Egophony.

A medical certificate that a student is ill.