Ad¶aÏmant (#), n. [OE. adamaunt, adamant, diamond, magnet, OF. adamant, L. adamas, adamantis, the hardest metal, fr. Gr. ?, ?; ? priv. + ? to tame, subdue. In OE., from confusion with L. adamare to love, be attached to, the word meant also magnet, as in OF. and LL. See Diamond, Tame.] 1. A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substance of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.
Opposed the rocky orb
Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield.
Milton.
2. Lodestone; magnet. [Obs.] ½A great adamant of acquaintance.¸
Bacon.
As true to thee as steel to adamant.
Greene.
Ad·aÏmanÏte¶an (#), a. [L. adamant?us.] Of adamant; hard as adamant.
Milton.
Ad·aÏman¶tine (#), a. [L. adamantinus, Gr. ?.] 1. Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.
2. (Min.) Like the diamond in hardness or luster.
Ad·amÏbuÏla¶cral (#), a. [L. ad + E. ambulacral.] (Zo”l.) Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish.
AÏdam¶ic (#), AÏdam¶icÏal (#),} a. Of or pertaining to Adam, or resembling him.
Adamic earth, a name given to common red clay, from a notion that Adam means red earth.
Ad¶amÏite (#), n. [From Adam.] 1. A descendant of Adam; a human being. 2. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies.
Ad¶am's ap¶ple (#). See under Adam.
AÏdance¶ (#), adv. Dancing.
Lowell.
AÏdan¶gle (#), adv. Dangling.
Browning.
Ø Ad·anÏso¶niÏa (#), n. [From Adanson, a French botanist.] (Bot.) A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkeyÐbread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or creamÐofÐtartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wideÐspreading 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.
D. C. Eaton.
AÏdapt¶ (#), a. Fitted; suited. [Obs.]
Swift.
AÏdapt¶, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adapted; p. pr. & vb. n. Adapting.] [L. adaptare; ad + aptare to fit; cf. F. adapter. See Apt, Adept.] To make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as to fit for a new use; Ð sometimes followed by to or for.]
For nature, always in the right,
To your decays adapts my sight.
Swift.
Appeals adapted to his [man's] whole nature.
Angus.
Streets ill adapted for the residence of wealthy persons.
Macaulay.
AÏdapt·aÏbil¶iÏty (#), AÏdapt¶aÏbleÏness (#),} n. The quality of being adaptable; suitableness. ½General adaptability for every purpose.¸
Farrar.
AÏdapt¶aÏble (#), a. Capable of being adapted.
Ad·apÏta¶tion (#), n. [Cf. F. adaptation, LL. adaptatio.] 1. The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. ½Adaptation of the means to the end.¸
Erskine.
2. The result of adapting; an adapted form.
AÏdapt¶aÏtive (#), a. Adaptive.
Stubbs.
AÏdapt¶edÏness (#), n. The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.
AÏdapt¶er (#), n. 1. One who adapts. 2. (Chem.) A connecting tube; an adopter. <ÐÐ 2. any device connecting two parts of an apparatus (e.g. tubes of different diameters, or electric cords with different plug types); a device allowing an apparatus to be used for purposes other than originally intended ÐÐ>
AÏdap¶tion (#), n. Adaptation.
Cheyne.
AÏdapt¶ive (#), a. Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting. Coleridge. Ð AÏdapt¶iveÏly, adv.
AÏdapt¶iveÏness, n. The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.
AÏdapt¶ly, adv. In a suitable manner. [R.]
Prior.
AÏdapt¶ness, n. Adaptedness. [R.]
Ad·apÏto¶riÏal (#), a. Adaptive. [R.]
Ø A¶dar (#), n. [Heb. ad„r.] The twelfth month of the Hebrew ecclesiastical year, and the sixth of the civil. It corresponded nearly with March.
Ø AÏdar¶ce (#), n. [L. adarce, adarca, Gr. ?.] 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.
Dana.
Ø Ad¶aÏtis (#), n. A fine cotton cloth of India.
AÏdaunt¶ (#), v. t. [OE. adaunten to overpower, OF. adonter; … (L. ad) + donter, F. dompter. See Daunt.] To daunt; to subdue; to mitigate. [Obs.]
Skelton.
AÏdaw¶ (#), v. t. [Cf. OE. adawe of dawe, AS. of dagum from days, i. e., from life, out of life.] To subdue; to daunt. [Obs.]
The sight whereof did greatly him adaw.
Spenser.
AÏdaw¶, v. t. & i. [OE. adawen to wake; pref. aÐ (cf. Goth. usÐ, Ger. erÐ) + dawen, dagon, to dawn. See Daw.] To awaken; to arouse. [Obs.]
A man that waketh of his sleep
He may not suddenly well taken keep
Upon a thing, he seen it parfitly
Till that he be adawed verify.
Chaucer.
AÏdays¶ (#), adv. [Pref. aÐ (for on) + day; the final s was orig. a genitive ending, afterwards forming adverbs.] By day, or every day; in the daytime. [Obs., except in the compound nowadays.]
Fielding.
Ø Ad capÏtan¶dum (#). [L., for catching.] A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor.
Add (#), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Added; p. pr. & vb. n. Adding.] [L. addere; ad + dare to give, put. Cf. Date, Do.] 1. To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).
The Lord shall add to me another son.
Gen. xxx. 24.
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2. To join or unite, as one thing to another, or as several particulars, so as to increase the number, augment the quantity, enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate. Hence: To sum up; to put together mentally; as, to add numbers; to add up a column.
Back to thy punishment,
False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.
Milton.
As easily as he can add together the ideas of two days or two years.
Locke.
3. To append, as a statement; to say further.
He added that he would willingly consent to the entire abolition of the tax.
Macaulay.
Syn. Ð To Add, Join, Annex, Unite, Coalesce. We add by bringing things together so as to form a whole. We join by putting one thing to another in close or continuos connection. We annex by attaching some adjunct to a larger body. We unite by bringing things together so that their parts adhere or intermingle. Things coalesce by coming together or mingling so as to form one organization. To add quantities; to join houses; to annex territory; to unite kingdoms; to make parties coalesce.