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The state or quality of being adherent; adherence. [R.]

The action of sticking; the state of being attached; intimate union; as the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like.

The state of being fat; fatness.

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

Capable of being adjusted.

The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation. Success depends on the nicest and minutest adjustment of the parts concerned. Paley.

Capable of being administered; as, an administrable law.

estate of a deceased person by an executor, the strictly corresponding term execution not being in use. Administration with the will annexed, administration granted where the testator has appointed no executor, or where his appointment of an executor for any cause has failed, as by death, incompetency, refusal to act,…

The quality of being admirable; wonderful excellence.

The quality of being admissible; admissibleness; as, the admissibility of evidence.

Entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable; as, the supposition is hardly admissible. -- Ad*mis"si*ble*ness, n. -- Ad*mis"si*bly, adv.

The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness.

Capable of being adopted.

The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.

The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration. Johnson.

The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god. The more immediate objects of popular adoration amongst the heathens were deified human beings. Farmer.

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

The state of being adult.

The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried. [Obs.] Harvey.

The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning. In heaven . . . every one (so well they love each other) rejoiceth and hath his part in each other's advancement. Sir T. More. True religion . . . propose…