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A record made by the actinograph.

The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race.

See under Adam.

A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substance of extreme hardness; but in modern minerology it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his amp…

Of adamant; hard as adamant. Milton.

Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.

Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish.

Of or pertaining to Adam, or resembling him. Adamic earth, a name given to common red clay, from a notion that Adam means red earth.

A descendant of Adam; a human being.

r a thing added. Fuller. My persuasion that the latter verses of the chapter were an additament of a later age. Coleridge.

Clinging, as by hooks.

Visited by a dream; -- used in the phrase, To be adreamed, to dream. [Obs.]

Considerable debility of the vital powers, as in typhoid fever. Dunglison.

Characterized by the absence of power or force. Adynamic fevers, malignant or putrid fevers attended with great muscular debility.

Adynamia. [R.] Morin.

Pertaining to the force of air in motion.

The science which treats of the air and other gaseous bodies under the action of force, and of their mechanical effects.

Acting by the force of air and water; as, an aërohydrodynamic wheel.

Propagated in an unusual way; cryptogamous.

To afflict with, or perish from, hunger. [Obs.] Spenser.