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The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity.

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey.

Quality of being actual; actuality.

The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle.

their value, as stated in their invoice, - - in opposition to a specific sum upon a given quantity or number; as, an ad valorem duty of twenty per cent.

Lodestone; magnet. [Obs.] "A great adamant of acquaintance." Bacon. As true to thee as steel to adamant. Greene.

Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.

The quality of being adaptable; suitableness. "General adaptability for every purpose." Farrar.

The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.

The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.

ne thing to another, or as several particulars, so as to increase the number, augment the quantity, enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate. Hence: To sum up; to put together mentally; as, to add numbers; to add up a column. Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings. Milton.…

The quantity of being addible; capability of addition. Locke.

The quality or state of being addicted; attachment.

The act of adducing or bringing forward. An adduction of facts gathered from various quarters. I. Taylor.

The quality of being adept; skill.

The quality or state of adhering.

The state or quality of being adherent; adherence. [R.]

The quality of sticking or adhering; stickiness; tenacity of union.

A word used with a noun, or substantive, to express a quality of the thing named, or something attributed to it, or to limit or define it, or to specify or describe a thing, as distinct from something else. Thus, in phrase, "a wise ruler," wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler.

A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in italics are the adjunct or adjuncts of "History."