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A crystalline substance, C9H13O3N, obtained from suprarenal extract, of which it is regarded as the active principle. It is used in medicine as a stimulant and hemostatic.

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.

s, or beyond what is merited. Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out With titles blown from adulation Shak.

Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal. When any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds. Adam Smith.

To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.

In the van or front.

The front edge (in direction of motion) of a supporting surface; -- contr. with following edge, which is the rear edge.

Coming from outward causes; superadded. [Obs.]

A thing or person coming from without; an immigrant. [R.] Bacon.

Information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from France; -- commonly in the plural.

The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court. Bell.

rs. It answers to the Gr. æ was generally replaced by a, the long e or ee. In derivatives from Latin words with ae, it is mostly superseded by e. For most words found with this initial combination, the reader will therefore search under the letter E.

or cylinder) with one or more projecting bent tubes, through which steam is made to pass from the vessel, causing it to revolve. [Written also eolipile.]

ly with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air. His sparkling sallies bubbled up as from aërated natural fountains. Carlyle.

Like, or from, the air; in an aërial manner. "A murmur heard aërially." Tennyson.

The act of becoming aërified, or of changing from a solid or liquid form into an aëriform state; the state of being aëriform.

A stone, or metallic mass, which has fallen to the earth from distant space; a meteorite; a meteoric stone.

Divination from the state of the air or from atmospheric substances; also, forecasting changes in the weather.

A plant growing entirely in the air, and receiving its nourishment from it; an air plant or epiphyte.

At, to, or from a great distance; far away; -- often used with from preceding, or off following; as, he was seen from afar; I saw him afar off. The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar. Beattie.