Part 183

<i>Faber.</i>

<h1>Adonic</h1> <Xpage=24>

<hw>A*don"ic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>adonique</ets>: cf. L. <ets>Adonius</ets>.]</ety> <def>Relating to Adonis, famed for his beauty.</def> -- <def2><tt>n.</tt> <def> An Adonic verse.</def></def2>

<cs><col>Adonic verse</col>, <cd>a verse consisting of a dactyl and spondee <tt>(#)</tt>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Adonis</h1> <Xpage=24>

<hw>A*do"nis</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L., gr. Gr. <?/.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Gr. Myth.)</fld> <def>A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A pre\'89minently beautiful young man; a dandy.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A genus of plants of the family <spn>Ranunculace\'91</spn>, containing the pheasaut's eye <spn>(Adonis autumnalis)</spn>; -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.</def>

<h1>Adonist</h1> <Xpage=24>

<hw>A*do"nist</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Heb. <ets><?/d<?/n\'bei</ets> my Lords.]</ety> <def>One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word translated "Jehovah" are really the vowel points of the word "Adonai." See <er>Jehovist</er>.</def>

<h1>Adonize</h1> <Xpage=24>

<hw>Ad"o*nize</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>adoniser</ets>, fr. <ets>Adonis</ets>.]</ety> <def>To beautify; to dandify.</def>

<blockquote>I employed three good hours at least in adjusting and <b>adonozing</b> myself. <i>Smollett.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Adoor, Adoors</h1> <Xpage=24>

<hw><hw>A*door</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <hw>A*doors</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>,<hw><def>At the door; of the door; <as>as, out <ex>adoors</ex></as>.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>I took him in <b>adoors</b>. <i>Vicar's Virgil (1630).</i></blockquote>

<h1>Adopt</h1> <Xpage=24>

<hw>A*dopt"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Adopted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Adopting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>adoptare</ets>; <ets>ad + optare</ets> to choose, desire: cf. F. <ets>adopter</ets>. See <er>Option</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To take by choice into relationship, <as>as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.</as> ; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; <as>as, to <ex>adopt</ex> the view or policy of another; these resolutions were <ex>adopted</ex>.</as></def>

<h1>Adoptable</h1> <Xpage=24>

<hw>A*dopt"a*ble</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being adopted.</def>

<h1>Adopted</h1> <Xpage=24>

<hw>A*dopt"ed</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; <as>as, an <ex>adopted</ex> son, citizen, country, word</as>.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>A*dopt"ed*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Adopter</h1> <Xpage=24>

<hw>A*dopt"er</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who adopts.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>adapter</asp>.]</altsp>

<h1>Adoption</h1> <Xpage=24>