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A rare mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of a white, yellow, or grayish color and adamantine luster. It is a chlorocarbonate of lead.

One of a sect of Adamites in the fifteenth century; -- so called from one Picard of Flanders. See Adamite.

a support by which one article may be suspended from another; a peg; a bolt. With pins of adamant And chains they made all fast. Milton.

The keeper of a cattle pound; a pinder. [Obs. or Scot.] T. Adams.

To make a postscript. [R.] T. Adams.

Having a postscript; added in a postscript. [R.] J. Q. Adams.

To forbid by authority; to interdict; as, God prohibited Adam from eating of the fruit of a certain tree; we prohibit a person from doing a thing, and also the doing of the thing; as, the law prohibits men from stealing, or it prohibits stealing.

Prolixity. Adam Smith.

ering a discourse publicly with propriety and gracefulness; -- now called delivery. J. Q. Adams.

The act of hastening; haste. [Obs.] T. Adams.

. "To maintain the atheistical pseudodox which judgeth evil good, and darkness light." T. Adams.

nous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also Adam-and-Eve.

in rhombohedral crystals or massive, and is of a dark red or black color with a metallic adamantine luster.

The nut of an Australian tree (Macadamia ternifolia). It is about an inch in diameter, and contains a single round edible seed, or sometimes two hemispherical seeds. So called from Queensland in Australia.

Northern United States (Crotalus horridus), and the diamond rattlesnake of the south (C. adamanteus), are the best known. See Illust. of Fang. Ground rattlesnake (Zoöl.), a small rattlesnake (Caudisona, or Sistrurus, miliaria) of the Southern United States, having a small rattle. It has nine large scales on its head.…

To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal. [R.] He has been rehearsed by Madame Defarge as to his having seen her. Dickens.

To suppress; to repel. [Obs.] Whence Adam soon repealed The doubts that in his heart arose. Milton.

brogate; to annul. The blessed Jesus . . . did sacramentally rescind the impure relics of Adam and the contraction of evil customs. Jer. Taylor.

A wife; -- in allusion to Eve, as made out of Adam's rib. [Familiar & Sportive] How many have we known whose heads have been broken with their own rib. Bp. Hall. Chuck rib, a cut of beef immediately in front of the middle rib. See Chuck. -- Fore ribs, a cut of beef immediately in front of the sirloin. -- Middle rib,…

A mineral usually of a reddish brown color, and brilliant metallic adamantine luster, occurring in tetragonal crystals. In composition it is titanium dioxide, like octahedrite and brooklite.