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Quenching thirst, as certain fruits.

Added; additional. Parkhurst.

; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a standard.

Capable of being adjusted.

Adjustment. [R.]

One who, or that which, adjusts.

A small plane or surface, usually capable of adjustment but not of manipulation, for preserving lateral balance in an aëroplane or flying machine.

Tending to adjust. [R.]

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.

Adopted. [Obs.]

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

Characterized by adulteration; spurious. "An adulterous mixture." [Obs.] Smollett.

In an adulterous manner.

Curved inwards; hooked.

Inflamed or scorched; fiery. "The Libyan air adust." Milton.

Burnt; adust. [Obs.] Howell.

That may be burnt. [Obs.]

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

Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation. Advabtageous comparison with any other country. Prescott. You see . . . of what use a good reputation is, and how swift and advantageous a harbinger it is, wherever one goe…

Profitably; with advantage.