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Admonitory. [R.] "An admonitorial tone." Dickens.

That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance. -- Ad*mon"i*to*ri*ly,, adv.

A female admonitor.

Adorableness.

Dexterous in the use of the hands or in the exercise of the mental faculties; exhibiting skill and readiness in avoiding danger or escaping difficulty; ready in invention or execution; -- applied to persons and to acts; as, an adroit mechanic, an adroit reply. "Adroit in the application of the telescope and quadrant."…

In an adroit manner.

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

Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious. "Adscititious evidence." Bowring. -- Ad`sci*ti"tious*ly, adv.

Curvature inwards; hookedness. The aduncity of the beaks of hawks. Pope.

Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign. To things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. Burke.

The quality of being adverbial. Earle.

Opposition; contrariety. [Obs.] Wyclif. Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Bacon.

The quality of being advisable; advisableness.

The state of being aërial; [R.] De Quincey.

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

Same as A.

The science of aërolites.

Of or pertaining to aërolites; meteoric; as, aërolitic iron. Booth.

A mass of meteoric iron.

See Eaglestone.