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t proceeds from the sun; separate the coarse wool from the fine; men have all sprung from Adam, and often go from good to bad, and from bad to worse; the merit of an action depends on the principle from which it proceeds; men judge of facts from personal knowledge, or from testimony. Experience from the time past to th…

To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something. Adams now began to fumble in his pockets. Fielding.

ous stone, mixed with fire clay; -- used for lining Bessemer converters; also used for macadamizing roads.

Having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, Adam, our general sire. Milton.

ally assumed to be one third of a century; an age. This is the book of the generations of Adam. Gen. v. 1. Ye shall remain there [in Babylon] many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations. Baruch vi. 3. All generations and ages of the Christian church. Hooker.

; to perceive or apprehend by the ear; to attend; to listen. So spake our mother Eve, and Adam heard, Well pleased, but answered not. Milton.

A wife; a helpmate. The Lord God created Adam, . . . and afterwards, on his finding the want of a helpmeet, caused him to sleep, and took one of his ribs and thence made woman. J. H. Newman.

h they expected to raise men and society to perfection, esp. of one originated in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt, professor of canon law at Ingolstadt, which spread rapidly for a time, but ceased after a few years.

To place in a pasture; to foster. [R.] T. Adams.

Not admitting excuse, evasion, or plea; rigorous. [R.] T. Adams.

An impossibility. [Obs.] "Madam," quoth he, "this were an impossible!" Chaucer.

of personal guilt or personal righteousness of another; as, the imputation of the sin of Adam, or the righteousness of Christ.

Not producing fruit; unfruitful; unprofitable. [R.] T. Adams.

The act of burning or branding. [Obs.] T. Adams.

To imprison. [R.] T. Adams (1614). [Bolts] that jail you from free life. Tennyson.

to still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind. Be comforted, good madam; the great rage, You see, is killed in him. Shak.

To have sexual commerce with. And Adam knew Eve his wife. Gen. iv. 1.

ne's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil. Adam, well may we labor still to dress This garden. Milton.

Madam; my lady; -- a colloquial contraction of madam often used in direct address, and sometimes as an appellation.

nd conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected. The machinery, madam, is a term invented by the critics, to signify that part which the deities, angels, or demons, are made to act in a poem. Pope.