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Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination. Selden.

A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface. Simpson.

To perform the arithmetical operation of addition; as, he adds rapidly.

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 bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or 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.

, that kind of inflammation which terminates in the reunion of divided parts without suppuration. -- Adhesive plaster, a sticking; a plaster containing resin, wax, litharge, and olive oil.

d, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration.

Containing an adjuration.

claims; an equitable arrangement of conflicting claims, as in set-off, contribution, exoneration, subrogation, and marshaling. Bispham.

Pertaining to administration, or to the executive part of government.

Pertaining to administration; administering; executive; as, an administrative body, ability, or energy. -- Ad*min"is*tra`tive*ly, adv.

e, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority.

ters; esp., one who administers the estate of an intestate, or to whom letters of administration have been granted; a female administrator.

r of state, who (when this rare dignity is conferred) is at the head of the naval administration of Great Britain.

Admiration. [Obs.] Spenser.

Relating to or expressing admiration or wonder. [R.] Earle.

Expressing admiration; as, an admiring glance. -- Ad*mir"ing*ly, adv. Shak.

Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented. Shipley.

To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.

The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration. Johnson.