Part 146

<h1>Adactyl, Adactylous</h1> <Xpage=19>

<hw><hw>A*dac"tyl</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <hw>A*dac"tyl*ous</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ priv. + <?/ finger.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>Without fingers or without toes.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>Without claws on the feet (of crustaceous animals).</def>

<h1>Adage</h1> <Xpage=19>

<hw>Ad"age</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>adage</ets>, fr. L. <ets>adagium</ets>; <ets>ad</ets> + the root of L. <ets>aio</ets> I say.]</ety> <def>An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb.</def>

<blockquote>Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i' the <b>adage</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Axiom; maxim; aphorism; proverb; saying; saw; apothegm. See <er>Axiom</er>.</syn>

<h1>Adagial</h1> <Xpage=19>

<hw>A*da"gi*al</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Pertaining to an adage; proverbial.</def> "<i>Adagial</i> verse."

<i>Barrow.</i>

<h1>Adagio</h1> <Xpage=19>

<hw>A*da"gio</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a. & adv.</tt> <ety>[It. <ets>adagio</ets>; <ets>ad</ets> (L. <ets>ad</ets>) at + <ets>agio</ets> convenience, leisure, ease. See <er>Agio</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, <i>adagio</i>, <i>adagio</i>, it directs the movement to be very slow.</def>

<h1>Adagio</h1> <Xpage=19>

<hw>A*da"gio</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A piece of music in <i>adagio</i> time; a slow movement; <as>as, an <ex>adagio</ex> of Haydn</as>.</def>

<h1>Adam</h1> <Xpage=19>

<hw>Ad"am</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(As a symbol)</fld> <def>"Original sin;" human frailty.</def>

<blockquote>And whipped the offending <b>Adam</b> out of him. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Adam's ale</col><cd>, water. <mark>[Coll.]</mark></cd> -- <col>Adam's apple</col>. <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <cd><sd>(a)</sd> A species of banana <spn>(Musa paradisiaca)</spn>. It attains a height of twenty feet or more. <i>Paxton]</i>. <sd>(b)</sd> A species of lime <spn>(Citris limetta)</spn>.</cd> <p><b>2.</b> <cd>The projection formed by the thyroid cartilage in the neck. It is particularly prominent in males, and is so called from a notion that it was caused by the forbidden fruit (an apple) sticking in the throat of our first parent.</cd> -- <col>Adam's flannel</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>the mullein <spn>(Verbascum thapsus)</spn>.</cd> -- <col>Adam's needle</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>the popular name of a genus <spn>(Yucca)</spn> of liliaceous plants.</cd></cs>

<h1>Adamant</h1> <Xpage=19>

<hw>Ad"a*mant</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>adamaunt</ets>, <ets>adamant</ets>, diamond, magnet, OF. <ets>adamant</ets>, L. <ets>adamas</ets>, <ets>adamantis</ets>, the hardest metal, fr. Gr. <?/, <?/; <?/ priv. + <?/ to tame, subdue. In OE., from confusion with L. <ets>adamare</ets> to love, be attached to, the word meant also <ets>magnet</ets>, as in OF. and LL. See <er>Diamond</er>, <er>Tame</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substance of extreme hardness; but in modern minerology it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.</def>

<blockquote>Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold <b>adamant</b>, his ample shield. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Lodestone; magnet.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "A great <i>adamant</i> of acquaintance."

<i>Bacon.</i>

<blockquote>As true to thee as steel to <b>adamant</b>. <i>Greene.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Adamantean</h1> <Xpage=19>

<hw>Ad`a*man*te"an</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>adamant\'c7us</ets>.]</ety> <def>Of adamant; hard as adamant.</def>

<i>Milton.</i>

<h1>Adamantine</h1> <Xpage=19>