[A`den] (42), a fortified town on a peninsula in British territory S. of Arabia, 105 m. E. of Bab-el-Mandeb; a coaling and military station, in a climate hot, but healthy.
[Ad`herbal], son of Micipsa, king of Numidia, killed by Jugurtha, 249 B.C.
[Adi Granth], the sacred book of the Sikhs.
[Adiaph`orists], Lutherans who in 16th century maintained that certain practices of the Romish Church, obnoxious to others of them, were matters of indifference, such as having pictures, lighting candles, wearing surplices, and singing certain hymns in worship.
[Ad`ige], a river of Italy, which rises in the Rhetian Alps and falls into the Adriatic after a course of 250 m.; subject to sudden swellings and overflowings.
[Adipocere], a fatty, spermaceti-like substance, produced by the decomposition of animal matter in moist places.
[Adipose tissue], a tissue of small vesicles filled with oily matter, in which there is no sensation, and a layer of which lies under the skin and gives smoothness and warmth to the body.
[Adirondack Mountains], a high-lying, picturesque, granite range in the State of New York; source of the Hudson.
[Adjutant], a gigantic Indian stork with an enormous beak, about 5 ft. in height, which feeds on carrion and offal, and is useful in this way, as storks are.
[Adler, Hermann], son and successor of the following, born in Hanover; a vigorous defender of his co-religionists and their faith, as well as their sacred Scriptures; was elected Chief Rabbi in 1891; b. 1839.