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To do; in doing; as, there is nothing. "What is here ado" J. Newton.

An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.

The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness.

g from childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper.

A Hebrew name for God, usually translated in the Old Testament by the word "Lord".

Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic. "Fair Adonean Venus." Faber.

Relating to Adonis, famed for his beauty. -- n.

A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceæ, containing the pheasaut's eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.

t points of the Hebrew word translated "Jehovah" are really the vowel points of the word "Adonai." See Jehovist.

To beautify; to dandify. I employed three good hours at least in adjusting and adonozing myself. Smollett.

At the door; of the door; as, out adoors. Shak. I took him in adoors. Vicar's Virgil (1630).

e or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.

Capable of being adopted.

Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word. -- A*dopt"ed*ly, adv.

One who adopts.

The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.

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

Adopted. [Obs.]

Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language. -- A*dopt"ive*ly, adv.