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given to the diamond and other substance of extreme hardness; but in modern minerology it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. Milton.

A provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus.

To make an adjective of; to form or change into an adjective. [R.] Language has as much occasion to adjective the distinct signification of the verb, and to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has . . . adjectived all three. Tooke.

one, as in Great Britain. A mild and popular administration. Macaulay. The administration has been opposed in parliament. Johnson.

f a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority.

The court which has jurisdiction of maritime questions and offenses.

A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.

A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity.

gn or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc. The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue with strange words. Spectator.

A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.

Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment.

Hooked; as, a parrot has an adunc bill.

To raise to a higher rank; to promote. Ahasueres . . . advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes. Esther iii. 1.

e to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons. Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve. Milton.

dvice; as, an advisory council; their opinion is merely advisory. The General Association has a general advisory superintendence over all the ministers and churches. Trumbull.

e of thy client. Bp. Sanderson (1624). This is the only thing distinct and sensible, that has been advocated. Burke. Eminent orators were engaged to advocate his cause. Mitford.

One who has an advowson. Cowell.

A stone, or metallic mass, which has fallen to the earth from distant space; a meteorite; a meteoric stone.

To declare or assert positively. Not that I so affirm, though so it seem To thee, who hast thy dwelling here on earth. Milton.

bulk and currency, and not after their intrinsic value. Bacon. After all, when everything has been considered; upon the whole. -- After (with the same noun preceding and following), as, wave after wave, day after day, several or many (waves, etc.) successively. -- One after another, successively. -- To be after, to…