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An inhabitant of the earth before Adam.

Existing or occurring before Adam; preadamic; as, preadamitic periods.

A name given to several species of stonecrop, used as ingredients of vermifuge medicines. See Stonecrop.

Somebody; one unknown. Spenser.

Having been formerly; former; sometime. "This is the quondam king." Shak.

Of or pertaining to Rhadamanthus; rigorously just; as, a Rhadamanthine judgment.

One of the three judges of the internal regions; figuratively, a strictly just judge.

Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, rhodium and ammonia; -- said of certain complex compounds.

Holland gin made at Schiedam in the Netherlands.

A schoolmistress.

A greenish or reddish crystalline substance, NaNH2, obtained by passing ammonia over heated sodium.

A stepmother. Spenser.

Minute vesicles surrounded by an area of reddened skin, produced by excessive sweating.

Same as Prickmadam.

The game of nineholes. [Written also trolmydames.] [Obs.] Shak.

To free from a dam, mound, or other obstruction. Dryden.

Uncondemned. [Obs.] Wyclif (Acts xvi. 37).

One of a class of temporal officers who originally represented the bishops, but later erected their offices into fiefs, and became feudal nobles.

A Dutch and German measure of liquids, varying in different cities, being at Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, at Antwerp 36½, at Hamburg 38¼. [Written also Aum and Awm.]

nderwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against.