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"Original sin;" human frailty. And whipped the offending Adam out of him. Shak. Adam's ale, water. [Coll.] -- Adam's apple.

See under Adam.

etical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. Milton.

Of adamant; hard as adamant. Milton.

Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.

Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish.

Of or pertaining to Adam, or resembling him. Adamic earth, a name given to common red clay, from a notion that Adam means red earth.

A descendant of Adam; a human being.

See Cerberus.

A macadamized road.

The process or act of macadamizing.

To cover, as a road, or street, with small, broken stones, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.

A gentlewoman; -- an appellation or courteous form of address given to a lady, especially an elderly or a married lady; -- much used in the address, at the beginning of a letter, to a woman. The corresponding word in addressing a man is Sir.

My lady; -- a French title formerly given to ladies of quality; now, in France, given to all married women. Chaucer.

Prior to Adam.

An inhabitant of the earth before Adam.

Existing or occurring before Adam; preadamic; as, preadamitic periods.

A name given to several species of stonecrop, used as ingredients of vermifuge medicines. See Stonecrop.

Of or pertaining to Rhadamanthus; rigorously just; as, a Rhadamanthine judgment.

One of the three judges of the internal regions; figuratively, a strictly just judge.