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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.

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

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

One of the largest African antelopes (Hippotragus, or Oryx, nasomaculatus).

A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The common European adder is the Vipera (or Pelias) berus. The puff adders of Africa are species of Clotho.

Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.

as not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus.

Sticking; clinging; adhering. Pope.

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

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.

om something else. Thus, in phrase, "a wise ruler," wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler.

A quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body, judgment in the mind.

To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a standard.

The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation. Success depends on the nicest and minutest adjustment of the parts concerned. Paley.

To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone.

state. For forms of government let fools contest: Whate'er is best administered is best. Pope.

A handsome butterfly (Pyrameis Atalanta) of Europe and America. The larva feeds on nettles. Admiral shell (Zoöl.), the popular name of an ornamental cone shell (Conus admiralis). Lord High Admiral, a great officer of state, who (when this rare dignity is conferred) is at the head of the naval administration of Great Br…

person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape. Admired as heroes and as gods obeyed. Pope.

tic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters. [Written also adapter.]

A method of electing a pope by the expression of homage from two thirds of the conclave. [Pole] might have been chosen on the spot by adoration. Froude.