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The digestion of fats.

Hydrolyzing fats; converting neutral fats into glycerin and free fatty acids, esp. by the action of an enzyme; as, adipolytic action.

The state of being fat; fatness.

An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel.

The state of being adjacent or contiguous; contiguity; as, the adjacency of lands or buildings.

Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway. "The adjacent forest." B. Jonson. Adjacent or contiguous angle. (Geom.) See Angle.

The act or mode of adding; also, the thing added. [R.] B. Jonson.

Of or relating to the relating to the adjective; of the nature of an adjective; adjective. W. Taylor (1797)

As, or in the manner of, an adjective; adjectively.

Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an word sentence.

In the manner of an adjective; as, a word used adjectively.

To lie or be next, or in contact; to be contiguous; as, the houses adjoin. When one man's land adjoins to another's. Blackstone.

Joining to; contiguous; adjacent; as, an adjoining room. "The adjoining fane." Dryden. Upon the hills adjoining to the city. Shak.

To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate. It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time. Barrow. 'Tis a needfu…

Adjournment; postponement. [R.] "An adjournal of the Diet." Sir W. Scott.

The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.

To award judicially in the case of a controverted question; as, the prize was adjudged to the victor.

The act of adjudging; judicial decision; adjudication. Sir W. Temple.

To come to a judicial decision; as, the court adjudicated upon the case.

The act of adjudicating; the act or process of trying and determining judicially.