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t is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.

site to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters. [Written also adapter.]…

ption; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.

ulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband.

One who is turned against another or others with a design to oppose

session (Law), a possession of real property avowedly contrary to some claim of title in another person. Abbott.

onnoiter; a dispatch boat. -- To take advice. (a) To accept advice. (b) To consult with another or others.

One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor.

The act of combining air with another substance, or the state of being filled with air.

Disposed. [Archaic] Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10.

To betroth; to pledge one's faith to for marriage, or solemnly promise (one's self or another) in marriage. To me, sad maid, he was affianced. Spenser.

an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another.

Behind in place; as, men in line one after another. "Shut doors after you." Shak.

Another time; once more; anew. If a man die, shall he live again Job xiv. 14.

lation between a principal and his agent; business of one intrusted with the concerns of another.

One who acts for, or in the place of, another, by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.

the line of no magnetic variation. There is one such line in the Western hemisphere, and another in the Eastern hemisphere.

t which is agreeable to the nature of one thing, is many times contrary to the nature of another. L'Estrange.

Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person.

esembling casein in its properties; also, a compound formed by the union of albumin with another substance.