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Same as Prickmadam.

ght proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds. Adam Smith.

Affixture. [Obs.] T. Adams.

Even though; although; notwithstanding. Chaucer. Albeit so masked, Madam, I love the truth. Tennyson.

The act alluring; temptation; enticement. Though Adam by his wife's allurement fell. Milton.

Cunning; artifice; craft. Madam, I swear I use no art at all. Shak. Animals practice art when opposed to their superiors in strength. Crabb.

Adamant. [Obs.] Written in the table of athamaunt. Chaucer.

A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland. Grabb. J. Q. Adams.

To come; to get. [Obs.] But, madam, where is Warwick then become! Shak. To become of, to be the present state or place of; to be the fate of; to be the end of; to be the final or subsequent condition of. What is then become of so huge a multitude Sir W. Raleigh.

son or thing; a solemn or affectionate invocation of happiness. So saying, he arose; whom Adam thus Followed with benediction. Milton. Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her. Longfellow. Specifically:

make destitute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away. Madam, you have bereft me of all words. Shak. Bereft of him who taught me how to sing. Tickell.

To set upon on all sides; to perplex; to harass; -- said of dangers, obstacles, etc. "Adam, sore beset, replied." Milton. "Beset with ills." Addison. "Incommodities which beset old age." Burke.

A place of worship; a hallowed spot. S. F. Adams.

Utterly confounded or discomfited. Adam . . . astonied stood, and blank. Milton.

in their bosoms, and I know Wherefore they do it. Shak. If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom. Job xxxi. 33.

Briefly. [Obs. or Poetic] Adam, faltering long, thus answered brief. Milton.

n stone; a mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of reddish brown color, and brilliant adamantine luster; also massive, sometimes in compact forms with concentric fibrous structure resembling wood (wood tin), also in rolled fragments or pebbly (Stream tin). It is the chief source of metallic tin. See Black tin, unde…

, at certain times, in the garret of Tom Dawes, the adjutant of the Boston regiment. John Adams's Diary [Feb. , 1763].

A genus of East Indian serpents, allied to the pythons; the bokadam.

nate; a mineral occurring in colorless, white, or yellowish transparent crystals, with an adamantine, also massive and compact.