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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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AD HOMINEM n.
` phrase applied to an appeal or argument addressed to the principles, interests, or passions of a man.
ADAMANTINE a. 2 definitions
f adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.
ADAPTABILITY; ADAPTABLENESS n.
The quality of being adaptable; suitableness. "General adaptability for every purpose." Farrar.
ADAPTEDNESS n.
The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.
ADAPTIVENESS n.
The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.
ADAPTNESS n.
Adaptedness. [R.]
ADDICTEDNESS n.
The quality or state of being addicted; attachment.
ADDLE-BRAINED; ADDLE-HEADED; ADDLE-PATED a.
Dull-witted; stupid. "The addle-brained Oberstein." Motley. Dull and addle-pated. Dryden.
ADDLE-PATEDNESS n.
Stupidity.
ADEPTNESS n.
The quality of being adept; skill.
ADEQUATENESS n.
The quality of being adequate; suitableness; sufficiency; adequacy.
ADHESIVENESS n. 2 definitions
The quality of sticking or adhering; stickiness; tenacity of union.
ADIPOSENESS; ADIPOSITY n.
The state of being fat; fatness.
ADJUSTING PLANE; ADJUSTING SURFACE n.
A small plane or surface, usually capable of adjustment but not of manipulation, for preserving lateral balance in an aëroplane or flying machine.
ADMIRABLENESS n.
The quality of being admirable; wonderful excellence.
ADMONITIONER n.
Admonisher. [Obs.]
ADONEAN a.
Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic. "Fair Adonean Venus." Faber.
ADORABLENESS n.
The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration. Johnson.
ADORNER n.
He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier.
ADRENALINE; ADRENALIN n.
A crystalline substance, C9H13O3N, obtained from suprarenal extract, of which it is regarded as the active principle. It is used in medicine as a stimulant and hemostatic.
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