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Not standing by itself; dependent. Adjective color, a color which requires to be fixed by some mordant or base to give it permanency.

The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.

A process by which land is attached security or in satisfaction of a debt.

One who, or that which, is joined.

One who, or that which, adjusts.

An ingredient, in a prescription, which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient.

A naval officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. The chief gradations in rank are admiral, vice admiral, and rear admiral. The admiral is the commander in chief of a fleet or of fleets.

The court which has jurisdiction of maritime questions and offenses.

with wonder and delight; to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love, or reverence; to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape. Admired as heroes and as gods obeyed. Pope.

shop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented. Shipley.

To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess; as, the argument or fact is admitted; he admitted his guilt.

That which is mixed with anything.

A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters. […

The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions. Jer. Taylor.

One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.

e honors to; to honor as deity or as divine. Bishops and priests, . . . bearing the host, which he [James adored. Smollett.

He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier.

A crystalline substance, C9H13O3N, obtained from suprarenal extract, of which it is regarded as the active principle. It is used in medicine as a stimulant and hemostatic.

Of or pertaining to a sea so named, the northwestern part of which is known as the Gulf of Venice.

A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone.