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other substance of extreme hardness; but in modern minerology it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. Milton.

A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half. [R.]

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.

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

The act of adhibiting; application; use. Whitaker.

ge into an adjective. [R.] Language has as much occasion to adjective the distinct signification of the verb, and to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has . . . adjectived all three. Tooke.

The act of adjudging; judicial decision; adjudication. Sir W. Temple.

Adjudication.

e principal staff officer of an army, through whom the commanding general receives communications and issues military orders. In the U. S. army he is brigadier general. (b) (Among the Jesuits), one of a select number of fathers, who resided with the general of the order, each of whom had a province or country assigned…

To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the state. For forms of government let fools contest: Whate'er is best administered is best. Pope.

To counsel against wrong practices; to cation or advise; to warn against danger or an offense; -- followed by of, against, or a subordinate clause. Admonishing one another in psalms and hymns. Col. iii. 16. I warned thee, I admonished thee, foretold The danger, and the lurking enemy. Milton.

lied to persons and to acts; as, an adroit mechanic, an adroit reply. "Adroit in the application of the telescope and quadrant." Horsley. "He was adroit in intrigue." Macaulay.

s, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in advance of the time of publication.

The act of informing or notifying; notification. [Archaic] An advertisement of danger. Bp. Burnet.

A modification of the aëroplane, having curved surfaces, the advantages of which were first demonstrated by Lilienthal.

Confirmation; ratification; confirmation of a voidable act. This statute . . . in affirmance of the common law. Bacon.

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

A fortress; a fortification for defense. [Obs.] Bailey.

Provocation; irritation. [Colloq.] Dickens.

Not open to a free current of air; wanting fresh air, or communication with the open air.