Adjustment (n.) Settlement of claims; an equitable arrangement of conflicting claims, as in set-off, contribution, exoneration, subrogation, and marshaling.
Adjustment (n.) The operation of bringing all the parts of an instrument, as a microscope or telescope, into their proper relative position for use; the condition of being thus adjusted; as, to get a good adjustment; to be in or out of adjustment.
Adjutage (n.) Same as Ajutage.
Adjutancy (n.) The office of an adjutant.
Adjutancy (n.) Skillful arrangement in aid; assistance.
Adjutant (n.) A helper; an assistant.
Adjutant (n.) A regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty.
Adjutant (n.) A species of very large stork (Ciconia argala), a native of India; -- called also the gigantic crane, and by the native name argala. It is noted for its serpent-destroying habits.
Adjutator (n.) A corruption of Agitator.
Adjute (v. t.) To add.
Adjutor (n.) A helper or assistant.
Adjutory (a.) Serving to help or assist; helping.
Adjutrix (n.) A female helper or assistant.
Adjuvant (a.) Helping; helpful; assisting.
Adjuvant (n.) An assistant.
Adjuvant (n.) An ingredient, in a prescription, which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient.
Adlegation (n.) A right formerly claimed by the states of the German Empire of joining their own ministers with those of the emperor in public treaties and negotiations to the common interest of the empire.
Ad libitum () At one's pleasure; as one wishes.
Adlocution (n.) See Allocution.
Admarginate (v. t.) To write in the margin.
Admaxillary (a.) Near to the maxilla or jawbone.
Admeasure (v. t.) To measure.
Admeasure (v. t.) To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture.
Admeasure (v. t.) The measure of a thing; dimensions; size.
Admeasure (v. t.) Formerly, the adjustment of proportion, or ascertainment of shares, as of dower or pasture held in common. This was by writ of admeasurement, directed to the sheriff.
Admeasurer (n.) One who admeasures.
Admensuration (n.) Same as Admeasurement.
Adminicle (n.) Help or support; an auxiliary.
Adminicle (n.) Corroborative or explanatory proof.
Adminicular (a.) Supplying help; auxiliary; corroborative; explanatory; as, adminicular evidence.
Adminiculary (a.) Adminicular.
Administered (imp. & p. p.) of Administer
Administering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Administer
Administer (v. t.) To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the state.
Administer (v. t.) To dispense; to serve out; to supply; execute; as, to administer relief, to administer the sacrament.
Administer (v. t.) To apply, as medicine or a remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc.
Administer (v. t.) To tender, as an oath.
Administer (v. t.) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
Administer (v. i.) To contribute; to bring aid or supplies; to conduce; to minister.
Administer (v. i.) To perform the office of administrator; to act officially; as, A administers upon the estate of B.
Administer (n.) Administrator.
Administerial (a.) Pertaining to administration, or to the executive part of government.
Administrable (a.) Capable of being administered; as, an administrable law.
Administrant (a.) Executive; acting; managing affairs.
Administrant (n.) One who administers.
Administrate (v. t.) To administer.
Administration (n.) The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction; management.
Administration (n.) The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are intrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain.
Administration (n.) The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation; as, the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament.
Administration (n.) The management and disposal, under legal authority, of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no competent executor.
Administration (n.) The management of an estate of a deceased person by an executor, the strictly corresponding term execution not being in use.
Administrative (a.) Pertaining to administration; administering; executive; as, an administrative body, ability, or energy.
Administrator (n.) One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.
Administrator (n.) A man who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority.
Administratorship (n.) The position or office of an administrator.
Administratrix (n.) A woman who administers; esp., one who administers the estate of an intestate, or to whom letters of administration have been granted; a female administrator.
Admirability (n.) Admirableness.
Admirable (a.) Fitted to excite wonder; wonderful; marvelous.
Admirable (a.) Having qualities to excite wonder united with approbation; deserving the highest praise; most excellent; -- used of persons or things.
Admirableness (n.) The quality of being admirable; wonderful excellence.
Admirably (adv.) In an admirable manner.
Admiral (n.) A naval officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. The chief gradations in rank are admiral, vice admiral, and rear admiral. The admiral is the commander in chief of a fleet or of fleets.
Admiral (n.) The ship which carries the admiral; also, the most considerable ship of a fleet.
Admiral (n.) A handsome butterfly (Pyrameis Atalanta) of Europe and America. The larva feeds on nettles.
Admiralship (n.) The office or position oaf an admiral; also, the naval skill of an admiral.
Admiralties (pl. ) of Admiralty
Admiralty (n.) The office or jurisdiction of an admiral.
Admiralty (n.) The department or officers having authority over naval affairs generally.
Admiralty (n.) The court which has jurisdiction of maritime questions and offenses.
Admiralty (n.) The system of jurisprudence of admiralty courts.
Admiralty (n.) The building in which the lords of the admiralty, in England, transact business.
Admirance (n.) Admiration.
Admiration (n.) Wonder; astonishment.
Admiration (n.) Wonder mingled with approbation or delight; an emotion excited by a person or thing possessed of wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman, of a landscape, of virtue.
Admiration (n.) Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise; a prodigy.
Admirative (a.) Relating to or expressing admiration or wonder.
Admired (imp. & p. p.) of Admire
Admiring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Admire
Admire (v. t.) To regard with wonder or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at.
Admire (v. t.) To regard with wonder and delight; to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love, or reverence; to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape.
Admire (v. i.) To wonder; to marvel; to be affected with surprise; -- sometimes with at.
Admired (a.) Regarded with wonder and delight; highly prized; as, an admired poem.
Admired (a.) Wonderful; also, admirable.
Admirer (n.) One who admires; one who esteems or loves greatly.
Admiring (a.) Expressing admiration; as, an admiring glance.
Admissibility (n.) The quality of being admissible; admissibleness; as, the admissibility of evidence.
Admissible (a.) Entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable; as, the supposition is hardly admissible.
Admission (n.) The act or practice of admitting.
Admission (n.) Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach.
Admission (n.) The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something /serted; acknowledgment; concession.
Admission (n.) Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.
Admission (n.) A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence.
Admission (n.) Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented.
Admissive (a.) Implying an admission; tending to admit.
Admissory (a.) Pertaining to admission.
Admitted (imp. & p. p.) of Admit
Admitting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Admit
Admit (v. t.) To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.
Admit (v. t.) To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into a playhouse.
Admit (v. t.) To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as, to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was admitted to bail.