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Adducing, or bringing towards or to something.

e line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body; -- opposed to abductor; as, the adductor of the eye, which turns the eye toward the nose. In the bivalve shells, the muscles which close the values of the shell are called adductor muscles. Verrill.

To sweeten; to soothe. [Obs.] Bacon.

Hell; the bottomless pit. [Poetic] In all her gates, Abaddon rues Thy bold attempt. Milton.

A sac or bladder full of air in an animal or plant; also an air hole in a casting.

In a straddling position; astride; bestriding; as, to sit astraddle a horse.

compar. of Bad, a. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A large black seaweed (Alaria esculenta) sometimes eaten in Europe; -- also called murlins, honeyware, and henware.

Somewhat bad; inferior. Jeffrey.

To bestride.

A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air.

A genus (Utricularia) of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium.

Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder.

The larva of a caddice fly. These larvæ generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with pieces of broken shells, gravel, bits of wood, etc. They are a favorite bait with anglers. Called also caddice worm, or caddis worm. Caddice fly (Zoöl.), a species of trichopterous insect, whose la…

A kind of worsted lace or ribbon. "Caddises, cambrics, lawns." Shak.

Like a cad; lowbred and presuming.

A jackdaw. [Prov. Eng.]

A small box, can, or chest to keep tea in.

A Scotch errand boy, porter, or messenger. [Written also cady.] Every Scotchman, from the peer to the cadie. Macaulay.

See Lumpfish. [Scot.]