Adrad (p. a.) Put in dread; afraid.
Adragant (n.) Gum tragacanth.
Adread (v. t. & i.) To dread.
Adreamed (p. p.) Visited by a dream; -- used in the phrase, To be adreamed, to dream.
Adrenal (a.) Suprarenal.
Adrian (a.) Pertaining to the Adriatic Sea; as, Adrian billows.
Adriatic (a.) Of or pertaining to a sea so named, the northwestern part of which is known as the Gulf of Venice.
Adrift (adv. & a.) Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.
Adrip (adv. & a.) In a dripping state; as, leaves all adrip.
Adrogate (v. t.) To adopt (a person who is his own master).
Adrogation (n.) A kind of adoption in ancient Rome. See Arrogation.
Adroit (a.) Dexterous in the use of the hands or in the exercise of the mental faculties; exhibiting skill and readiness in avoiding danger or escaping difficulty; ready in invention or execution; -- applied to persons and to acts; as, an adroit mechanic, an adroit reply.
Adroitly (adv.) In an adroit manner.
Adroitness (n.) The quality of being adroit; skill and readiness; dexterity.
Adry (a.) In a dry or thirsty condition.
Adscititious (a.) Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious.
Adscript (a.) Held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs.
Adscript (n.) One held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf.
Adscriptive (a.) Attached or annexed to the glebe or estate and transferable with it.
Adsignification (n.) Additional signification.
Adsignify (v. t.) To denote additionally.
Adstrict (n.) See Astrict, and Astriction.
Adstrictory (a.) See Astrictory.
Adstringent (a.) See Astringent.
Adularia (n.) A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone.
Adulate (v. t.) To flatter in a servile way.
Adulation (n.) Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited.
Adulator (n.) A servile or hypocritical flatterer.
Adulatory (a.) Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address.
Adulatress (n.) A woman who flatters with servility.
Adult (a.) Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.
Adult (n.) A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity.
Adulter (v. i.) To commit adultery; to pollute.
Adulterant (n.) That which is used to adulterate anything.
Adulterant (a.) Adulterating; as, adulterant agents and processes.
Adulterated (imp. & p. p.) of Adulterate
Adulterating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adulterate
Adulterate (v. t.) To defile by adultery.
Adulterate (v. t.) To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc.
Adulterate (v. i.) To commit adultery.
Adulterate (a.) Tainted with adultery.
Adulterate (a.) Debased by the admixture of a foreign substance; adulterated; spurious.
Adulteration (n.) The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture.
Adulteration (n.) An adulterated state or product.
Adulterator (n.) One who adulterates or corrupts.
Adulterer (n.) A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.
Adulterer (n.) A man who violates his religious covenant.
Adulteress (n.) A woman who commits adultery.
Adulteress (n.) A woman who violates her religious engagements.
Adulterine (a.) Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal.
Adulterine (n.) An illegitimate child.
Adulterize (v. i.) To commit adultery.
Adulterous (a.) Guilty of, or given to, adultery; pertaining to adultery; illicit.
Adulterous (a.) Characterized by adulteration; spurious.
Adulterously (adv.) In an adulterous manner.
Adulteries (pl. ) of Adultery
Adultery (n.) The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband.
Adultery (n.) Adulteration; corruption.
Adultery (n.) Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment.
Adultery (n.) Faithlessness in religion.
Adultery (n.) The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery.
Adultery (n.) The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.
Adultery (n.) Injury; degradation; ruin.
Adultness (n.) The state of being adult.
Adumbrant (a.) Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth.
Adumbrate (v. t.) To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth.
Adumbrate (v. t.) To overshadow; to shade.
Adumbration (n.) The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth.
Adumbration (n.) A faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing.
Adumbration (n.) The shadow or outlines of a figure.
Adumbrative (a.) Faintly representing; typical.
Adunation (n.) A uniting; union.
Adunc (a.) Alt. of Adunque
Adunque (a.) Hooked; as, a parrot has an adunc bill.
Aduncity (n.) Curvature inwards; hookedness.
Aduncous (a.) Curved inwards; hooked.
Adure (v. t.) To burn up.
Adust (a.) Inflamed or scorched; fiery.
Adust (a.) Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt.
Adust (a.) Having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy.
Adusted (a.) Burnt; adust.
Adustible (a.) That may be burnt.
Adustion (n.) The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried.
Adustion (n.) Cauterization.
Ad valorem () A term used to denote a duty or charge laid upon goods, at a certain rate per cent upon their value, as stated in their invoice, -- in opposition to a specific sum upon a given quantity or number; as, an ad valorem duty of twenty per cent.
Advanced (imp. & p. p.) of Advance
Advancing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Advance
Advance (v. t.) To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
Advance (v. t.) To raise; to elevate.
Advance (v. t.) To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
Advance (v. t.) To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests.
Advance (v. t.) To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument.
Advance (v. t.) To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
Advance (v. t.) To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him.
Advance (v. t.) To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods.
Advance (v. t.) To extol; to laud.
Advance (v. i.) To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me.
Advance (v. i.) To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.
Advance (v. i.) To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted.
Advance (v.) The act of advancing or moving forward or upward; progress.