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Success depends on the nicest and minutest adjustment of the parts concerned. Paley.

2. (Law) Settlement of claims; an equitable arrangement of conflicting claims, as in set-off, contribution, exoneration, subrogation, and marshaling. Bispham.

3. 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.

Syn. -- Suiting; fitting; arrangement; regulation; settlement; adaptation; disposition.

Ad"ju*tage (&?;), n. Same as Ajutage.

Ad"ju*tan*cy (&?;), n. [See Adjutant.] 1. The office of an adjutant.

2. Skillful arrangement in aid; assistance.

It was, no doubt, disposed with all the adjutancy of definition and division. Burke.

Ad"ju*tant (&?;), n. [L. adjutans, p. pr. of adjutare to help. See Aid.] 1. A helper; an assistant.

2. (Mil.) 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 general (a) (Mil.), the principal staff officer of an army, through whom the commanding general receives communications and issues military orders. In the U. S. army he is brigadier general. (b) (Among the Jesuits), one of a select number of fathers, who resided with the general of the order, each of whom had a province or country assigned to his care.

3. (Zoöl.) 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.

Ad"ju*ta`tor (&?;), n. (Eng. Hist.) A corruption of Agitator.

Ad*jute" (&?;), v. t. [F. ajouter; confused with L. adjutare.] To add. [Obs.]

Ad*ju"tor (&?;), n. [L., fr. adjuvare. See Aid.] A helper or assistant. [Archaic] Drayton.

Ad*ju"to*ry (&?;), a. [L. adjutorius.] Serving to help or assist; helping. [Obs.]

Ad*ju"trix (&?;), n. [L. See Adjutor.] A female helper or assistant. [R.]

Ad"ju*vant (d"j*vnt), a. [L. adjuvans, p. pr. of adjuvare to aid: cf. F. adjuvant. See Aid.] Helping; helpful; assisting. [R.] "Adjuvant causes." Howell.

Ad"ju*vant, n. 1. An assistant. [R.] Yelverton.

2. (Med.) An ingredient, in a prescription, which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient.

Ad`le*ga"tion (&?;), n. [L. adlegatio, allegatio, a sending away; fr. adlegare, allegare, to send away with a commission; ad in addition + legare to send as ambassador. Cf. Allegation.] 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. Encyc. Brit.

||Ad lib"i*tum (&?;). At one's pleasure; as one wishes.

Ad`lo*cu"tion (&?;), n. See Allocution. [Obs.]

Ad*mar"gin*ate (&?;), v. t. [Pref. ad- + margin.] To write in the margin. [R.] Coleridge.

Ad*max"il*la*ry (&?;), a. [Pref. ad- + maxillary.] (Anat.) Near to the maxilla or jawbone.

Ad*meas"ure (?; 135), v. t. [Cf. OF. amesurer, LL. admensurare. See Measure.] 1. To measure.

2. (Law) To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone.

2. The measure of a thing; dimensions; size.