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To dip. [Obs.] Walton.

A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.

To treat or affect with dope; as, to dope nitroglycerin; specif.:

A chart of previous performances, etc., of race horses. [Race- track Slang]

Affected by "dope"; esp., sluggish or dull as though under the influence of a narcotic. [Slang]

A spiritual or ghostly double or counterpart; esp., an apparitional double of a living person; a cowalker.

An Anabaptist or Baptist. [Contemptuous] B. Jonson.

A brownish black native hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jellylike masses.

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.

Feeding upon aphides, or plant lice, as do beetles of the family Coccinellidæ.

A special branch, resembling a leaf, as in the apparent foliage of the broom (Ruscus) and of the common cultivated smilax (Myrsiphillum).

Any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms, Trichina, etc.; -- opposed to ectoparasite. See Entozoön. -- En`do*par`a*sit"ic, a.

The inner layer of the bark of trees.