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One who, or that which, adds; esp., a machine for adding numbers.

To earn by labor. [Prov. Eng.] Forby.

petition, etc. (to any one, an audience). The young hero had addressed his players to him for his assistance. Dryden.

To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege. Reasons . . . were adduced on both sides. Macaulay. Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration. De Quincey.

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

A provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus.

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

Combining forms of the Greek word for gland; -- used in words relating to the structure, diseases, etc., of the glands.

The state or quality of being adequate, proportionate, or sufficient; a sufficiency for a particular purpose; as, the adequacy of supply to the expenditure.

To equal. [Obs.] It [is] an impossibility for any creature to adequate God in his eternity. Shelford.

to error, to a policy. His adhesion to the Tories was bounded by his approbation of their foreign policy. De Quincey.

Propensity to form and maintain attachments to persons, and to promote social intercourse.

Having the form or appearance of adipocere; as, an adipoceriform tumor.

al fat; fatty. Adipose fin (Zoöl.), a soft boneless fin. -- Adipose tissue (Anat.), that form of animal tissue which forms or contains fat.

contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway. "The adjacent forest." B. Jonson. Adjacent or contiguous angle. (Geom.) See Angle.

To make an adjective of; to form or change into an adjective. [R.] Language has as much occasion to adjective the distinct signification of the verb, and to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has . . . adjectived all three. Tooke.

To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate. It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time. Barrow. 'Tis a needfu…

To sentence; to condemn. Without reprieve, adjudged to death For want of well pronouncing Shibboleth. Milton.

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."

Joining; having the quality of joining; forming an adjunct.