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

Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language. -- A*dopt"ive*ly, adv.

An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.

Pertaining to the Adriatic Sea; as, Adrian billows.

Of or pertaining to a sea so named, the northwestern part of which is known as the Gulf of Venice.

Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address. A mere rant of adulatory freedom. Burke.

Guilty of, or given to, adultery; pertaining to adultery; illicit. Dryden.

The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried. [Obs.] Harvey.

progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests.

rovement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning. In heaven . . . every one (so well they love each other) rejoiceth and hath his part in each other's advancement. Sir T. More. True religion . . . proposes for its end the joint advancement of the virtue and happiness of the…

Of or pertaining to an adverb; of the nature of an adverb; as, an adverbial phrase or form.

A turning towards; attention. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Admonition; advice; warning. [Obs.] Therefore give me no counsel: My griefs cry louder than advertisement. Shak.

Having power to advise; containing advice; as, an advisory council; their opinion is merely advisory. The General Association has a general advisory superintendence over all the ministers and churches. Trumbull.

Of or pertaining to an advocate. [R.]

Pertaining to, or characterized by, debility of the vital powers; weak.

Of or pertaining to the sea, or arm of the Mediterranean sea, east of Greece. See Archipelago.

Of or pertaining to Æolia or Æolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; æolic; as, the Æolian dialect.

Of or pertaining to the air, or atmosphere; inhabiting or frequenting the air; produced by or found in the air; performed in the air; as, aërial regions or currents. "Aërial spirits." Milton. "Aërial voyages." Darwin.

s felt by aëronauts due to high speed of flights and rapidity in changing altitudes, combining some symptoms of mountain sickness and some of seasickness.