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Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.

Examination or consideration of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest discussion; debate. A logical agitation of the matter. L'Estrange. The project now in agitation. Swift.

posed to a federative government; -- applied particularly to the party which opposed the adoption of the constitution of the United States. Pickering.

The spiral tubular proboscis of lepidopterous insects. See Lepidoptera.

Devouring aphides; aphidophagous.

A lepidopterous insect, which in the larval state often travels in great multitudes from field to field, destroying grass, grain, and other crops. The common army worm of the northern United States is Leucania unipuncta. The name is often applied to other related species, as the cotton worm.

Adoption of a person of full age.

act which was first made by the original thirteen States of the United States. They were adopted March 1, 1781, and remained the supreme law until March, 1789. -- Articles of impeachment, an instrument which, in cases of impeachment, performs the same office which an indictment does in a common criminal case. -- Arti…

To receive or adopt. The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and lower rank, assumed into that honorable company. Sir W. Scott.

The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting. The assumption of authority. Whewell.

rule, a rule for religious communities based upon the 109th letter of St. Augustine, and adopted by the Augustinian orders.

An amateur collector and breeder of insects, esp. of butterflies and moths; a lepidopterist.

pon, or due or relating to, the structure and characteristics of the diseased organism; endopathic; as, an autopathic disease; an autopathic theory of diseases.

One of several lepidopterous insects which construct, in the larval state, a baglike case which they carry about for protection. One species (Platoeceticus Gloveri) feeds on the orange tree. See Basket worm.

To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech. The ill habit . . . of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms. Milton.

- Basket work, work consisting of plaited osiers or twigs. -- Basket worm (Zoöl.), a lepidopterous insect of the genus Thyridopteryx and allied genera, esp. T. ephemeræformis. The larva makes and carries about a bag or basket-like case of silk and twigs, which it afterwards hangs up to shelter the pupa and wingless ad…

o many tribes, subject to the English. They formerly practiced cannibalism, but have now adopted many European customs.

xed; not spurious; specifically, of uncompromising Presbyterianism, blue being the color adopted by the Covenanters.

The red cap adopted by the extremists in the French Revolution, which became a sign of patriotism at that epoch; hence, a revolutionist; a Red Republican.

To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another. Rites borrowed from the ancients. Macaulay. It is not hard for any man, who hath a Bible in his hands, to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above. Milton.…