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a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.

power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception. To gain admittance into the house. South. He desires admittance to the king. Dryden. To give admittance to a thought of fear. Shak.

An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.

To beautify; to dandify. I employed three good hours at least in adjusting and adonozing myself. Smollett.

Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.

Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors. The adorable Author of Christianity. Cheyne.

The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god. The more immediate objects of popular adoration amongst the heathens were deified human beings. Farmer.

To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine. Bishops and priests, . . . bearing the host, which he [James adored. Smollett.

oit mechanic, an adroit reply. "Adroit in the application of the telescope and quadrant." Horsley. "He was adroit in intrigue." Macaulay.

perfect portrayal or representation of a thing. Elegant adumbrations of sacred truth. Bp. Horsley.

Hooked; as, a parrot has an adunc bill.

Curvature inwards; hookedness. The aduncity of the beaks of hawks. Pope.

Curved inwards; hooked.

Burnt; adust. [Obs.] Howell.

. . proposes for its end the joint advancement of the virtue and happiness of the people. Horsley.

One who advances; a promoter.

Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over. Lest Satan should get an advantage of us. 2 Cor. ii. 11.

son with any other country. Prescott. You see . . . of what use a good reputation is, and how swift and advantageous a harbinger it is, wherever one goes. Chesterfield.

y important arrival; approach. Death's dreadful advent. Young. Expecting still his advent home. Tennyson.

Hostile. [R.] Southey.