अंग्रेजी अंग्रेजी शब्दकोश

Alt. of Adactylous

Without fingers or without toes.

Without claws on the feet (of crustaceous animals).

An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb.

Pertaining to an adage; proverbial.

Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow.

A piece of music in adagio time; a slow movement; as, an adagio of Haydn.

The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race.

"Original sin;" human frailty.

See under Adam.

A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.

Lodestone; magnet.

Of adamant; hard as adamant.

Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.

Like the diamond in hardness or luster.

Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish.

Alt. of Adamical

Of or pertaining to Adam, or resembling him.

A descendant of Adam; a human being.

One of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies.