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an ornamental cone shell (Conus admiralis). Lord High Admiral, a great officer of state, who (when this rare dignity is conferred) is at the head of the naval administration of Great Britain.

One who admires; one who esteems or loves greatly. Cowper.

One who admits.

One who admonishes.

; -- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts. An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament. Gray.

ly Ranunculaceæ, containing the pheasaut's eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.

One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word translated "Jehovah" are really the vowel points of the word "Adonai." See Jehovist.

One who adopts.

One who adores; a worshiper; one who admires or loves greatly; an ardent admirer. "An adorer of truth." Clarendon. I profess myself her adorer, not her friend. Shak.

He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier.

To adopt (a person who is his own master).

A woman who flatters with servility.

A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity.

One who adulterates or corrupts. [R.] Cudworth.

A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.

A woman who commits adultery.

One who advances; a promoter.

.] Clarendon. -- To have the advantage of (any one), to have a personal knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge. "You have the advantage of me; I don't remember ever to have had the honor." Sheridan. -- To take advantage of, to profit by; (often used in a bad sense) to overreach, to outwit.…

One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second Adventists. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises.