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ongenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals.

A genus of ferns, the leaves of which shed water; maidenhair. Also, the black maidenhair, a species of spleenwort.

A mass of fat found internally; also, a fatty tumor. -- Ad`i*pom"a*tous, a.

pening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel.

The act or mode of adding; also, the thing added. [R.] B. Jonson.

as as much occasion to adjective the distinct signification of the verb, and to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has . . . adjectived all three. Tooke.

Help; support; also, a helper. [Obs.] Waterhouse.

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.

The ship which carries the admiral; also, the most considerable ship of a fleet. Like some mighty admiral, dark and terrible, bearing down upon his antagonist with all his canvas straining to the wind, and all his thunders roaring from his broadsides. E. Everett.

Now, good Lafeu, bring in the admiration. Shak. Note of admiration, the mark (!), called also exclamation point.

Wonderful; also, admirable. [Obs.] "Admired disorder." " Admired Miranda." Shak.

Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception. To gain admittance into the house. South. He desires admittance to the king. Dryden. To give admittance to a thought of fear. Shak.

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

An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.

the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

ck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters. [Written also adapter.]

Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.

Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig. So on the sea shall be set adrift. Dryden. Were from their daily labor turned adrift. Wordsworth.

bracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second Adventists. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes. These parchments are supposed to have been St. Paul's adversaria. Bp. Bull.