[Adrets, Baron des], a Huguenot leader, notorious for his cruelty; died a Catholic (1513-1587).
[A`dria], an ancient town between the Po and the Adige; a flourishing seaport at one time, but now 14 m. from the sea.
[A`drian], name of six Popes: A. I., from 772 to 795, did much to embellish Rome; A. II., from 867 to 872, zealous to subject the sovereigns of Europe to the Popehood; A. III., from 884 to 885; A. V., from 1054 to 1059, the only Englishman who attained to the Papal dignity; A. V., in 1276; A. VI., from 1222 to 1223. See Breakspeare.
[Adrian, St.], the chief military saint of N. Europe for many ages, second only to St. George; regarded as the patron of old soldiers, and protector against the plague.
[Adriano`ple] (60), a city in European Turkey, the third in importance, on the high-road between Belgrade and Constantinople.
[Adria`tic, The], a sea 450 m. long separating Italy from Illyria, Dalmatia, and Albania.
[Adullam], David's hiding-place (1 Sam. xxii. 1), a royal Canaanitish city 10 m. NW. of Hebron.
[Adullamites], an English political party who in 1866 deserted the Liberal side in protest against a Liberal Franchise Bill then introduced. John Bright gave them this name. See 1 Sam. xxii.
[Adumbla], a cow, in old Norse mythology, that grazes on hoar-frost, "licking the rime from the rocks—a Hindu cow transported north," surmises Carlyle.