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An engagement between troops in war, whether on land or water; a battle; a fight; as, a general action, a partial action.

To adapt; to make suitable; to fit. [Obs.] The land about is exceedingly addicted to wood, but the coldness of the place hinders the growth. Evelyn.

Combining forms of the Greek word for gland; -- used in words relating to the structure, diseases, etc., of the glands.

(Med.) Pain in a gland.

Shaped like a gland; adenoid. Dunglison.

Glandular inflammation. Dunglison.

That part of anatomy which describes the glands.

Glandlike; glandular.

The part of physiology that treats of the glands.

A benign tumor of a glandlike structure; morbid enlargement of a gland. -- Ad`e*nom"a*tous, a.

Disease of a gland.

Producing glands.

Having glands on the leaves.

The hardening of a gland.

Like a gland; full of glands; glandulous; adenous.

Dissection of, or incision into, a gland or glands.

ondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition. Ireland had no adequate champion. De Quincey.

Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent. To that treaty Spain and England gave in their adhesion. Macaulay.

The state of being adjacent or contiguous; contiguity; as, the adjacency of lands or buildings.

To add or annex; to join. Leland.