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To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions; as, to extend liquors. G. P. Burnham.

Doom or sentence decreed in advance. "A dread foredoom ringing in the ears of the guilty adult." Southey.

of such illicit sexual intercourse between a man and a woman as does not by law amount to adultery.

lli) of Abyssinia, remarkable for the length of the hair on the neck and shoulders of the adult male.

proceeding from, the original stock; native; hence, not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated; authentic; real; natural; true; pure; as, a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials. "True, genuine night." Dryden.

A mixture composed of unfermented grape juice, brandy, sugar, etc., for adulteration of wines. [Written also jerupigia.]

n addition to some dextrose or glucose, also maltose, dextrin, etc. It is used as a cheap adulterant of sirups, beers, etc.

to the Rhizopoda, and parasitic in other animals, as in the earthworm, lobster, etc. When adult, they have a small, wormlike body inclosing a nucleus, but without external organs; in one of the young stages, they are amoebiform; -- called also Gregarinida, and Gregarinaria.

olian harp. See under Æolian. Harp seal (Zoöl.), an arctic seal (Phoca Groenlandica). The adult males have a light-colored body, with a harp-shaped mark of black on each side, and the face and throat black. Called also saddler, and saddleback. The immature ones are called bluesides. -- Harp shell (Zoöl.), a beautiful…

Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvæ differing from the adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the grasshoppers and cockroaches.

pecially to insects in which there is a wide difference of form between the larva and the adult, and to plants having more than one form of flower.

To adulterate; to drug; as, liquor is said to be hocused for the purpose of stupefying the drinker. Dickens.

larvæ of some insects after leaving the egg, from which masses the wings and legs of the adult are subsequently formed.

The final adult, and usually winged, state of an insect. See Illust. of Ant-lion, and Army worm.

uberal animals the cerebellum is, in proportion to the brain proper, greatly less than in adults. Sir W. Hamilton.

ng something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water or air; impure drugs, food, etc.

The condition or quality of being impure in any sense; defilement; foulness; adulteration. Profaneness, impurity, or scandal, is not wit. Buckminster.

Unfaithfulness to the marriage vow or contract; violation of the marriage covenant by adultery.

e. It is composed of three bones, ilium, ischium, and pubis, consolidated into one in the adult, though separate in the fetus, as also in many adult reptiles and amphibians. -- Innominate contracts (Law), in the Roman law, contracts without a specific name.

Unimpaired, unadulterated, or genuine state; entire correspondence with an original condition; purity. Language continued long in its purity and integrity. Sir M. Hale.