Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 21

Add (v. t.) 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.

Add (v. t.) To append, as a statement; to say further.

Add (v. i.) To make an addition. To add to, to augment; to increase; as, it adds to our anxiety.

Add (v. i.) To perform the arithmetical operation of addition; as, he adds rapidly.

Addable (a.) Addible.

Addax (n.) One of the largest African antelopes (Hippotragus, / Oryx, nasomaculatus).

Addeem (v. t.) To award; to adjudge.

Addenda (pl. ) of Addendum

Addendum (n.) A thing to be added; an appendix or addition.

Adder (n.) One who, or that which, adds; esp., a machine for adding numbers.

Adder (n.) A serpent.

Adder (n.) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The common European adder is the Vipera (/ Pelias) berus. The puff adders of Africa are species of Clotho.

Adder (n.) In America, the term is commonly applied to several harmless snakes, as the milk adder, puffing adder, etc.

Adder (n.) Same as Sea Adder.

Adder fly/ () A dragon fly.

Adder's-tongue (n.) A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue.

Adder's-tongue (n.) The yellow dogtooth violet.

Adderwort (n.) The common bistort or snakeweed (Polygonum bistorta).

Addibility (n.) The quantity of being addible; capability of addition.

Addible (a.) Capable of being added.

Addice (n.) See Adze.

Addict (p. p.) Addicted; devoted.

Addicted (imp. & p. p.) of Addict

Addicting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Addict

Addict (v. t.) To apply habitually; to devote; to habituate; -- with to.

Addict (v. t.) To adapt; to make suitable; to fit.

Addictedness (n.) The quality or state of being addicted; attachment.

Addiction (n.) The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination.

Addison's disease () A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon this causes exclusively. It is usually fatal.

Additament (n.) An addition, or a thing added.

Addition (n.) The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution.

Addition (n.) Anything added; increase; augmentation; as, a piazza is an addition to a building.

Addition (n.) That part of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers.

Addition (n.) A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half.

Addition (n.) A title annexed to a man's name, to identify him more precisely; as, John Doe, Esq.; Richard Roe, Gent.; Robert Dale, Mason; Thomas Way, of New York; a mark of distinction; a title.

Addition (n.) Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honor; -- opposed to abatement.

Additional (a.) Added; supplemental; in the way of an addition.

Additional (n.) Something added.

Additionally (adv.) By way of addition.

Additionary (a.) Additional.

Addititious (a.) Additive.

Additive (a.) Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.

Additory (a.) Tending to add; making some addition.

Addle (n.) Liquid filth; mire.

Addle (n.) Lees; dregs.

Addle (a.) Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled.

Addled (imp. & p. p.) of Addle

Addling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Addle

Addle (v. t. & i.) To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain.

Addle (v. t. & i.) To earn by labor.

Addle (v. t. & i.) To thrive or grow; to ripen.

Addle-brain (n.) Alt. of Addle-pate

Addle-head (n.) Alt. of Addle-pate

Addle-pate (n.) A foolish or dull-witted fellow.

Addle-brained (a.) Alt. of Addle-pated

Addle-headed (a.) Alt. of Addle-pated

Addle-pated (a.) Dull-witted; stupid.

Addle-patedness (n.) Stupidity.

Addlings (n. pl.) Earnings.

Addoom (v. t.) To adjudge.

Addorsed (a.) Set or turned back to back.

Addressed (imp. & p. p.) of Address

Addressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Address

Address (v.) To aim; to direct.

Address (v.) To prepare or make ready.

Address (v.) Reflexively: To prepare one's self; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.

Address (v.) To clothe or array; to dress.

Address (v.) To direct, as words (to any one or any thing); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience).

Address (v.) To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to; to accost.

Address (v.) To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit; as, he addressed a letter.

Address (v.) To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.

Address (v.) To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore.

Address (v. i.) To prepare one's self.

Address (v. i.) To direct speech.

Address (v. t.) Act of preparing one's self.

Address (v. t.) Act of addressing one's self to a person; verbal application.

Address (v. t.) A formal communication, either written or spoken; a discourse; a speech; a formal application to any one; a petition; a formal statement on some subject or special occasion; as, an address of thanks, an address to the voters.

Address (v. t.) Direction or superscription of a letter, or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed.

Address (v. t.) Manner of speaking to another; delivery; as, a man of pleasing or insinuating address.

Address (v. t.) Attention in the way one's addresses to a lady.

Address (v. t.) Skill; skillful management; dexterity; adroitness.

Addressee (n.) One to whom anything is addressed.

Addression (n.) The act of addressing or directing one's course.

Adduced (imp. & p. p.) of Adduce

Adducing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adduce

Adduce (v. t.) To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.

Adducent (a.) Bringing together or towards a given point; -- a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. Opposed to abducent.

Adducer (n.) One who adduces.

Adducible (a.) Capable of being adduced.

Adduct (v. t.) To draw towards a common center or a middle line.

Adduction (n.) The act of adducing or bringing forward.

Adduction (n.) The action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its axis]; -- opposed to abduction.

Adductive (a.) Adducing, or bringing towards or to something.

Adductor (n.) A muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body; -- opposed to abductor; as, the adductor of the eye, which turns the eye toward the nose.

Addulce (v. t.) To sweeten; to soothe.

Adeem (v. t.) To revoke, as a legacy, grant, etc., or to satisfy it by some other gift.

Adelantadillo (n.) A Spanish red wine made of the first ripe grapes.

Adelantado (n.) A governor of a province; a commander.

Adelaster (n.) A provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus.

Adeling (n.) Same as Atheling.

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