[Acupressure], checking hemorrhage in arteries during an operation by compressing their orifices with a needle.
[Acupuncture], the operation of pricking an affected part with a needle, and leaving it for a short time in it, sometimes for as long as an hour.
[Adair, Sir Robert], a distinguished English diplomatist, and frequently employed on the most important diplomatic missions (1763-1855).
[Adal], a flat barren region between Abyssinia and the Red Sea.
[Adalbe`ron], the archbishop of Rheims, chancellor of Lothaire and Louis V.; consecrated Hugh Capet; d. 998.
[Adalbert], a German ecclesiastic, who did much to extend Christianity over the North (1000-1072).
[Adalbert, St.], bishop of Prague, who, driven from Bohemia, essayed to preach the gospel in heathen Prussia, where the priests fell upon him, and "struck him with a death-stroke on the head," April 27, 997, on the anniversary of which day a festival is held in his honour.
[Ada`lia] (30), a seaport on the coast of Asia Minor, on a bay of the same name.
[Adam] (i. e. man), the first father, according to the Bible, of the human race.
[Adam, Alex.], a distinguished Latin scholar, rector for 40 years of the Edinburgh High School, Scott having been one of his pupils (1741-1809).