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The quantity of being addible; capability of addition. Locke.

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.…

Stupidity.

ufficient; a sufficiency for a particular purpose; as, the adequacy of supply to the expenditure.

Added; additional. Parkhurst.

By way of addition or adjunct; in connection with.

The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation. Success depends on the nicest and minutest adjustment of the parts concerned. Paley.

Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig. So on the sea shall be set adrift. Dryden. Were from their daily labor turned adrift. Wordsworth.

In a dry or thirsty condition. "A man that is adry." Burton.

Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious. "Adscititious evidence." Bowring. -- Ad`sci*ti"tious*ly, adv.

Additional signification. [R.] Tooke.

To denote additionally. [R.] Tooke.

An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods.

Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. Give me advantage of some brief discourse. Shak. The advantages of a close alliance. Macaulay.

Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign. To things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. Burke.

Of or pertaining to the sea, or arm of the Mediterranean sea, east of Greece. See Archipelago.

A sickness felt by aëronauts due to high speed of flights and rapidity in changing altitudes, combining some symptoms of mountain sickness and some of seasickness.

two impressions upon the skin can be distinguished, and thus to determine whether the condition of tactile sensibility is normal or altered.

The state of torpidity induced by the heat and dryness of summer, as in certain snails; -- opposed to hibernation.

ial thermometer. It is used for measuring changes of temperature produced by different conditions of the sky, as when clear or clouded.