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Adactyl
(a.)
Alt. of Adactylous
Adactylous
(a.)
Without fingers or without toes.
Adactylous
(a.)
Without claws on the feet (of crustaceous animals).
Adage
(n.)
An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a
proverb.
Adagial
(a.)
Pertaining to an adage; proverbial.
Adagio
(a. & adv.)
Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When
repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow.
Adagio
(n.)
A piece of music in adagio time; a slow movement; as, an
adagio of Haydn.
Adam
(n.)
The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor
of the human race.
Adam
(n.)
"Original sin;" human frailty.
See under Adam.
Adamant
(n.)
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.
Adamant
(n.)
Lodestone; magnet.
Adamantean
(a.)
Of adamant; hard as adamant.
Adamantine
(a.)
Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant;
incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine
bonds or chains.
Adamantine
(a.)
Like the diamond in hardness or luster.
Adambulacral
(a.)
Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles
of the starfish.
Adamic
(a.)
Alt. of Adamical
Adamical
(a.)
Of or pertaining to Adam, or resembling him.
Adamite
(n.)
A descendant of Adam; a human being.
Adamite
(n.)
One of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate
the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies.