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rystalline substance, C9H13O3N, obtained from suprarenal extract, of which it is regarded as the active principle. It is used in medicine as a stimulant and hemostatic.

Pertaining to the Adriatic Sea; as, Adrian billows.

Of or pertaining to a sea so named, the northwestern part of which is known as the Gulf of Venice.

In a dripping state; as, leaves all adrip. D. G. Mitchell.

escaping difficulty; ready in invention or execution; -- applied to persons and to acts; as, an adroit mechanic, an adroit reply. "Adroit in the application of the telescope and quadrant." Horsley. "He was adroit in intrigue." Macaulay.

The quality of being adroit; skill and readiness; dexterity. Adroitness was as requisite as courage. Motley.

Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious. "Adscititious evidence." Bowring. -- Ad`sci*ti"tious*ly, adv.

Held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs.

See Astrict, and Astriction.

See Astrictory.

See Astringent.

A cultivated variety of the Asiatic gram, now introduced into the United States.

Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address. A mere rant of adulatory freedom. Burke.

Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.

That which is used to adulterate anything. -- a. Adulterating; as, adulterant agents and processes.

To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc. The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue with strange words. Spectator.

intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal. When any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds. Adam Smith.

Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment.

Hooked; as, a parrot has an adunc bill.

her of two compounds, a chlorine derivative and bromine derivative, of hydroquinone, used as developers.