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- English Word Adnate Definition Growing with one side adherent to a stem; -- a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals.
- English Word Adnation Definition The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.
- English Word Adnominal Definition Pertaining to an adnoun; adjectival; attached to a noun.
- English Word Adnoun Definition An adjective, or attribute.
- English Word Adnubilated Definition Clouded; obscured.
- English Word Ado Definition To do; in doing; as, there is nothing ado.
- English Word Ado Definition Doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles.
- English Word Adobe Definition An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.
- English Word Adolescence Definition The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.
- English Word Adolescency Definition The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness.
- English Word Adolescent Definition Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.
- English Word Adolescent Definition A youth.
- English Word Adonean Definition Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic.
- English Word Adonic Definition Relating to Adonis, famed for his beauty.
- English Word Adonic Definition An Adonic verse.
- English Word Adonis Definition A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.
- English Word Adonis Definition A preeminently beautiful young man; a dandy.
- English Word Adonis Definition A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceae, containing the pheasant's eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.
- English Word Adonist Definition One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word translated "Jehovah" are really the vowel points of the word "Adonai." See Jehovist.
- English Word Adonize Definition To beautify; to dandify.
- English Word Adoor Definition Alt. of Adoors
- English Word Adoors Definition At the door; of the door; as, out adoors.
- English Word Adopt Definition To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
- English Word Adopt Definition To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.
- English Word Adoptable Definition Capable of being adopted.
- English Word Adopted Definition of Adopt
- English Word Adopted Definition Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word.
- English Word Adopter Definition One who adopts.
- English Word Adopter Definition A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters.
- English Word Adopting Definition of Adopt