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Additional. [R.] Herbert.

Additive. [R.] Sir J. Herschel.

Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.

Tending to add; making some addition. [R.] Arbuthnot.

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

A foolish or dull-witted fellow. [Colloq.]

Dull-witted; stupid. "The addle-brained Oberstein." Motley. Dull and addle-pated. Dryden.

Stupidity.

Earnings. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

To adjudge. [Obs.] Spenser.

Set or turned back to back.

To aim; to direct. [Obs.] Chaucer. And this good knight his way with me addrest. Spenser.

One to whom anything is addressed.

The act of addressing or directing one's course. [Rare & Obs.] Chapman.

consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege. Reasons . . . were adduced on both sides. Macaulay. Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration. De Quincey.

Bringing together or towards a given point; -- a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. Opposed to abducent.

One who adduces.

Capable of being adduced. Proofs innumerable, and in every imaginable manner diversified, are adducible. I. Taylor.

To draw towards a common center or a middle line. Huxley.

The act of adducing or bringing forward. An adduction of facts gathered from various quarters. I. Taylor.