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2. (Bot.) Growing together; -- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts.

An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament. Gray.

3. (Zoöl.) Growing with one side adherent to a stem; -- a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals.

Ad*na"tion (&?;), n. (Bot.) The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.

Ad*nom"i*nal (&?;), a. [L. ad + nomen noun.] (Gram.) Pertaining to an adnoun; adjectival; attached to a noun. Gibbs. -- Ad*nom"i*nal*ly, adv.

Ad"noun` (&?;), n. [Pref. ad- + noun.] (Gram.) An adjective, or attribute. [R.] Coleridge.

Ad*nu"bi*la`ted (&?;), a. [L. adnubilatus, p. p. of adnubilare.] Clouded; obscured. [R.]

A*do" (*d"), (1) v. inf., (2) n. [OE. at do, northern form for to do. Cf. Affair.] 1. To do; in doing; as, there is nothing ado. "What is here ado?" J. Newton.

2. Doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles.

With much ado, he partly kept awake. Dryden.

Let's follow to see the end of this ado. Shak.

||A*do"be (*d"b), n. [Sp.] An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.

Ad`o*les"cence (&?;), n. [Fr., fr. L. adolescentia.] The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

Ad`o*les"cen*cy (&?;), n. The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness.

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Ad`o*les"cent (d`*ls"sent), a. [L. adolescens, p. pr. of adolescere to grow up to; ad + the inchoative olescere to grow: cf. F. adolescent. See Adult.] Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.

Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper.

Ad`o*les"cent, n. A youth.

Ad`o*ne"an (-n"an), a. [L. Adonus.] Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic. "Fair Adonean Venus." Faber.

A*don"ic (&?;), a. [F. adonique: cf. L. Adonius.] Relating to Adonis, famed for his beauty. - - n. An Adonic verse.

Adonic verse, a verse consisting of a dactyl and spondee (-- | -- --).

||A*do"nis (*d"ns), n. [L., gr. Gr. 'A`dwnis.] 1. (Gr. Myth.) A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.

2. A preëminently beautiful young man; a dandy.

3. (Bot.) A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceæ, containing the pheasant's eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.

A*do"nist (*d"nst), n. [Heb. dni my Lords.] One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word translated "Jehovah" are really the vowel points of the word "Adonai." See Jehovist.

Ad"o*nize (d"*nz), v. t. [Cf. F. adoniser, fr. Adonis.] To beautify; to dandify.

I employed three good hours at least in adjusting and adonozing myself. Smollett.

{ A*door (&?;), A*doors (&?;), } At the door; of the door; as, out adoors. Shak.