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To equalize; to make adequate. [R.] Fotherby.

One who held the real presence of Christ's body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation.

Clinging, as by hooks.

To hold, be attached, or devoted; to remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity of faith, principle, or opinion; as, men adhere to a party, a cause, a leader, a church.

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

Good-by; farewell; an expression of kind wishes at parting.

Adieu; farewell; good-by; -- chiefly used among Spanish- speaking people.

or derived from, fatty or oily substances; -- applied to certain acids obtained from fats by the action of nitric acid.

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.

Hydrolyzing fats; converting neutral fats into glycerin and free fatty acids, esp. by the action of an enzyme; as, adipolytic action.

An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel.

Not standing by itself; dependent. Adjective color, a color which requires to be fixed by some mordant or base to give it permanency.

in contact with; to attach; to append. Corrections . . . should be, as remarks, adjoined by way of note. Watts.

To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.

A deliberate determination by the judicial power; a judicial decision or sentence. "An adjudication in favor of natural rights." Burke.

By way of addition or adjunct; in connection with.

buildeth this city Jericho. Josh. vi. 26. The high priest . . . said . . . I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ. Matt. xxvi. 63. The commissioners adjured them not to let pass so favorable an opportunity of securing their liberties. Marshall.

y large stork (Ciconia argala), a native of India; -- called also the gigantic crane, and by the native name argala. It is noted for its serpent-destroying habits.

A right formerly claimed by the states of the German Empire of joining their own ministers with those of the emperor in public treaties and negotiations to the common interest of the empire. Encyc. Brit.

f proportion, or ascertainment of shares, as of dower or pasture held in common. This was by writ of admeasurement, directed to the sheriff.