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Glandlike; glandular.

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

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

d; intimate union; as the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like.

Like adipocere.

The ship which carries the admiral; also, the most considerable ship of a fleet. Like some mighty admiral, dark and terrible, bearing down upon his antagonist with all his canvas straining to the wind, and all his thunders roaring from his broadsides. E. Everett.

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

fference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the plural. [He] made the like advances to the dissenters. Swift.

The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat. He loved excitement and adventure. Macaulay.

Colored like bronze.

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

brood of such birds; eyrie. Shak. Also fig.: A human residence or resting place perched like an eagle's nest.

Of the nature of, or like, copper; brassy. [R.]

Executed in a workmanlike manner; ingeniously made. [R.] Bailey.

To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually. For he does neither affect company, nor is he fit for Shak. Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank, nor court that of the great. Hazlitt.

knowledge; supernatural impulse; inspiration. A poet writing against his genius will be like a prophet without his afflatus. Spence.

To strike or cast down; to overthrow. [Obs.] "Reassembling our afflicted powers." Milton.

To strike, or strike down. [Obs.] Spenser.

; a picture after Rubens; the boy takes after his father. To name or call after, to name like and reference to. Our eldest son was named George after his uncle. Goldsmith.

From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in contact with; upon; as, hail beats against the roof.