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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with…

ADAPTATION n. 2 definitions

ocess of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. "Adaptation of the means to the end." Erskine.

Adaptation. Cheyne.

ADDER'S-TONGUE n. 2 definitions

A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue.

The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination. "His addiction was to courses vain." Shak.

ADDISON'S DISEASE n.

A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon this causes exclusively. It is usually fatal.…

ADDITION n. 6 definitions

The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution. "This endless addition or addibility of numbers." Locke.

ADDITIONAL a. 2 definitions

Added; supplemental; in the way of an addition.

ADDITIONALLY adv.

By way of addition.

Additional. [R.] Herbert.

The act of addressing or directing one's course. [Rare & Obs.] Chapman.

ADDUCTION n. 2 definitions

The act of adducing or bringing forward. An adduction of facts gathered from various quarters. I. Taylor.

ADELOCODONIC a.

ids of hydroids, that have a saclike form and do not become free; -- opposed to phanerocodonic.

The revocation or taking away of a grant donation, legacy, or the like. Bouvier.

An obtaining; attainment. [Obs.] In the wit and policy of the capitain consisteth the chief adeption of the victory. Grafton.

The act of equalizing; act or result of making adequate; an equivalent. [Obs.] Bp. Barlow.

See Affiliation. [Obs.]

ADHESION n. 6 definitions

The action of sticking; the state of being attached; intimate union; as the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like.

The act of adhibiting; application; use. Whitaker.