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Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.

ion. To add to, to augment; to increase; as, it adds to our anxiety. "I will add to your yoke." 1 Kings xii. 14.

To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to; to accost. Are not your orders to address the senate Addison. The representatives of the nation addressed the king. Swift.

To revoke, as a legacy, grant, etc., or to satisfy it by some other gift.

djective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has . . . adjectived all three. Tooke.

To yoke to. [Obs.]

Additional signification. [R.] Tooke.

To denote additionally. [R.] Tooke.

Hooked; as, a parrot has an adunc bill.

Curvature inwards; hookedness. The aduncity of the beaks of hawks. Pope.

Curved inwards; hooked.

Easy to be spoken to or addressed; receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; courteous; sociable. An affable and courteous gentleman. Shak. His manners polite and affable. Macaulay.

Fondness; affection. [Obs.] Hooker.

Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law. Hooker.

An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.

To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate. [Colloq.] If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine. Richardson (Clarissa).

hostility; the first act of injury, or first act leading to a war or a controversy; unprovoked attack; assault; as, a war of aggression. "Aggressions of power." Hallam

ferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made. Fosbroke.

se speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use. Hooker.

By the length; in a line with the length; lengthwise. Some laid along . . . on spokes of wheels are hung. Dryden.