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Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest.

Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied. Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper.

Gradually accelerating the movement.

The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.

A plant which has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants.

Having no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plants which have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc.

eth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge. -- a. Of or pertaining to the acrodonts.

To adjudge. [Obs.] Spenser.

Set or turned back to back.

A governor of a province; a commander. Prescott.

Applied to sexual zooids of hydroids, that have a saclike form and do not become free; -- opposed to phanerocodonic.

To do; in doing; as, there is nothing. "What is here ado" J. Newton.

An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.

The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness.

Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper.

A Hebrew name for God, usually translated in the Old Testament by the word "Lord".

Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic. "Fair Adonean Venus." Faber.

Relating to Adonis, famed for his beauty. -- n.

A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceæ, containing the pheasaut's eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.