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Pricking with a needle; a needle prick. Specifically (Med.):

, and is so called from a notion that it was caused by the forbidden fruit (an apple) sticking in the throat of our first parent. -- Adam's flannel (Bot.), the mullein (Verbascum thapsus). -- Adam's needle (Bot.), the popular name of a genus (Yucca) of liliaceous plants.

th pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. D. C. Eaton.

r the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. "Adaptation of the means to the end." Erskine.

arshy grounds in Galatia. It is soft and porous, and was formerly used for cleansing the skin from freckles and tetters, and also in leprosy. Dana.

add to, to augment; to increase; as, it adds to our anxiety. "I will add to your yoke." 1 Kings xii. 14.

around a circular spur wheel or gear wheel, touching the crests or tips of the teeth. Rankine.

elves to the civil law." Evelyn. He is addicted to his study. Beau. & Fl. That part of mankind that addict their minds to speculations. Adventurer. His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity. Fuller. A man gross . . . and addicted to low company. Macaulay.

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.…

coat of arms, as a mark of honor; -- opposed to abatement. Vector addition (Geom.), that kind of addition of two lines, or vectors, AB and BC, by which their sum is regarded as the line, or vector, AC.

Tending to add; making some addition. [R.] Arbuthnot.

our orders to address the senate Addison. The representatives of the nation addressed the king. Swift.

The revocation or taking away of a grant donation, legacy, or the like. Bouvier.

The act of equalizing; act or result of making adequate; an equivalent. [Obs.] Bp. Barlow.

Sticking; clinging; adhering. Pope.

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

n. 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.

The quality of sticking or adhering; stickiness; tenacity of union.

ure and volume of a fluid when it expands without either receiving or giving out heat. Rankine.

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