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ch, petition, etc., to speak to; to accost. Are not your orders to address the senate Addison. The representatives of the nation addressed the king. Swift.

ent, 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.

y which the parts of the body are drawn towards its axis]; -- opposed to abduction. Dunglison.

Shaped like a gland; adenoid. Dunglison.

Glandular inflammation. Dunglison.

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.

Apt or tending to adhere; clinging. Thomson. Adhesive attraction. (Physics) See Attraction. -- Adhesive inflammation (Surg.), 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.…

Propensity to form and maintain attachments to persons, and to promote social intercourse.

To admit, as a person or thing; to take in. Muirhead.

Incapable of doing either harm or good, as some medicines. Dunglison.

Admission; approach; access. [R.] Yourself and yours shall have Free adit. Tennyson.

ghboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway. "The adjacent forest." B. Jonson. Adjacent or contiguous angle. (Geom.) See Angle.

The act or mode of adding; also, the thing added. [R.] B. Jonson.

A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate. Wotton.

The form of oath or appeal. Persons who . . . made use of prayer and adjurations. Addison.

To put in order; to regulate, or reduce to system. Adjusting the orthography. Johnson.

A regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty. Adjutant general (a) (Mil.), the principal staff officer of an army, through whom the commanding general receives communications and issues military orders. In the U. S.…

The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are intrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain. A mild and popular administration. Macaulay. The administration has…

Admirableness. [R.] Johnson.

nder united with approbation; deserving the highest praise; most excellent; -- used of persons or things. "An admirable machine." "Admirable fortitude." Macaulay.