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A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor.

ay of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on). The Lord shall add to me another son. Gen. xxx. 24.

A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half. [R.]

Something added. [R.] Bacon.

Tending to add; making some addition. [R.] Arbuthnot.

To prepare or make ready. [Obs.] His foe was soon addressed. Spenser. Turnus addressed his men to single fight. Dryden. The five foolish virgins addressed themselves at the noise of the bridegroom's coming. Jer. Taylor.

Adducing, or bringing towards or to something.

To sweeten; to soothe. [Obs.] Bacon.

To revoke, as a legacy, grant, etc., or to satisfy it by some other gift.

Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition. Ireland had no adequate champion. De Quincey.

a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.

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

One of the German Protestants who, with Melanchthon, held some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent or nonessential, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical. Murdock.

Incapable of doing either harm or good, as some medicines. Dunglison.

A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration.

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

So as to be adjacent.

Not standing by itself; dependent. Adjective color, a color which requires to be fixed by some mordant or base to give it permanency.

Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it. Learning is but an adjunct to our self. Shak.

The act of adjuring; a solemn charging on oath, or under the penalty of a curse; an earnest appeal. What an accusation could not effect, an adjuration shall. Bp. Hall.