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Terminating in a flat, narrow end. Lindley.

Pertaining to an adage; proverbial. "Adagial verse." Barrow.

Dangling. Browning.

he land about is exceedingly addicted to wood, but the coldness of the place hinders the growth. Evelyn.

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.…

To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain. "Their eggs were addled." Cowper.

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

A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration.

That which is adjacent.[R.] Sir T. Browne.

. It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time. Barrow. 'Tis a needful fitness That we adjourn this court till further day. Shak.

Admissible. Sir T. Browne.

Concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Admonitory. [R.] Barrow. -- Ad*mon"i*tive*ly, adv.

To move or conduct to or toward. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Growing to or on something else. "An adnascent plant." Evelyn.

Grown to congenitally.

The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper.

The act of adoring; adoration. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity.