-ada 
-ada. [Sp. Pg. -ada = It. -ata = F. -ee, < L. -nln. 
fern, of -dtiis: see -uilt 1 , -util.} A suffix- of 
Latin origin, the Spanish feminine form of 
-n iii i, -ii/t-i, aainormooa : in English sometimes, 
erroneously, -ado, as in baxtinndn, Spanish IHIX- 
tinada. 
Adacna (a-dak'ua), n. [NL., < Gr. d- priv. + 
ddicvetv, bite.] The typical genus of the ftitnily 
Adacnidie (which see). liiclnnild, 1838. 
adacnid (a-dak'nid), n. A bivalve mollusk, of 
the family .lilni'iiiilir. 
Adacnidae (a-dak'ni-de), n. 
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Not that Adam that kept the paradise, hut that Adam 
that keeps the prison. Shale., C. of E., iv. 3. 
Adapis 
lie at the sides of the ambulacra! grooves, and against 
which the ambulacra! ossicle* abut. Sec cut under Atte- 
Prior, Wandering Pilgrim. 
Sirrah, ... go bring 
A cup of cold Adam from the next purling spring 
'Aim. Hroicn, Works, IV. 11. 
Adam's apple, (a) Pomum Adami, the prominence on 
<ie;, H. p. (W^-, ^ Mlaaia the fore pa jf of a, e throat formed by the anterior part of 
+ -/'.] A family of dimyanan bivalve mol- the thyroid cartilage of the larynx : so called from the 
a- priv., 
In zool., 
lusks, typified by the genus Ai/iiciin. The animal, 
which compose this family have elongated, nearly united 
siphons, and a compressed font; the shell, which gapes 
behind, has a sinuated pallia! line anil a nearly toothless 
hinge, or the teeth merely rudimentary. The species are 
chiefly inhabitants of the Aral, Caspian, and llhick seas 
and neighboring waters. 
adactt (a-dakf), v- t. [< L. adactus, pp. of adi- 
i/i'fc, drive to, < ad, to, + agere, drive.] To 
drive ; coerce. Fotherby, Atheomastix, p. 15. 
adactyl, adactyle (a-dak'til), a. 
adactylovs. 
adactylous (a-dak'ti-lus), a. [< Gr. 
without, + (Sa/fTuAof, digit : see dactyl.] 
without fingers or toes. 
adadt (a-dad'), interj. [A var. of egad.] An ex- 
pletive of asseveration or emphasis. 
-adae. [NL., < Gr. -adai, pi. of -a<fyf, after -;-, 
equiv. to -<(% after a consonant or another 
vowel : see -idee.'} In zool., a suffix equivalent 
to -idol, forming names of families of animals. 
See -Ida 1 . 
adaemonist (a-de'mon-ist), n. [< Gr. d- priv. + 
6aiuuv, a demon (see demon), + -ist."} One who 
denies the existence or personality of the devil. 
adag, attac (ad'ag, at'ak), n. [< Gael, adag, 
a haddock; perhaps borrowed from E. had- 
dock.] A local name of the haddock, used about 
Moray frith in Scotland. Gordon. 
adaga (a-da'ga), n. [Pg. adaga, a dagger, a 
short sword. "Cf. adargue (?).] An Asiatic 
weapon, having a short, broad blade at right 
angles with a staff which serves as a handle. 
K. F. Burton, Book of the Sword. 
adage (ad'aj), n. [< F. adage, < L. adagium (col- 
Adam and Eve, the popular name in the United States 
for a certain terrestrial orchid, Aplectrum liii-nml,-. Adamuood (ad'am-hud), n. Adamic or human 
Adam's ale, Adam's wine, water, as being the only bev- nature; manhood. Emerson. FKare 1 
era,,-,,, Warns time: sometimes called A,!,,,,,, irollo,,.] Adamic (a-dam'ik), . 1. Relating or pertain- 
. .: ^ e $_ ! a .;! tt y",'", r w . m i"" 1 1 livc ' ing to Adam or to his descendants: as, the 
Adamic world ; Adamic descent. 
Prof. Winchell, of course, takes the ground that the older 
or black race is of an inferior type to the subsequent or, 
as he calls them, the Adamic races. 
Pop. Sci. Mo., XIII. 600. 
I have stated these supposed conditions of the Adamic 
creation briefly. Damon, Origin of World, p. 239. 
2. Resembling Adam before the fall ; naked ; 
unclothed Adamic earth, common red clay, so called 
from a notion that Adam means red earth. 
Adamical (a-dam'i-kal), a. Relating or re- 
lated to Adam; Adamic. 
Adamically (a-dam'i-kal-i), adv. After the 
manner of Adam ; nakedly. 
Halbert standing on the plunging stage Adamicallii, 
without a rag upon him. H. Kingxley, Geoff. Ham., xlvi. 
(ad'a-min), n. Same as Adamite, 4. 
(ad'a-mit), n. [< Adam + -ite 2 .} 1. 
mont,< OF. adanmunt, ode maunt, in popular One of mankind ; one of the human race con- 
form aimant = Pr. adiman, aziman ayman L Sp. !' de , red , a . 8 de f ended f m Adam,- 2 One of 
Pg. iman, < ML. "adimas ( 'adimant-), I,, adamas that , s ctl o n of mankind more particularly re- 
/,,,/.,.,..', / r<_ !.*+ /LX \ t-j. garcled as tlie oflspnng ol Adam, in contradis- 
notion that a piece of the forbidden fruit stuck in Adam's 
throat. The protuberance is specially noticeable in the 
male sex after puberty, as the larynx enlarges in boys at 
the time when the change in the voice occurs, (b) A va- 
riety of the lime, Citm* medlra, with a depression which 
is fancifully regarded in Italy as the mark of Adam's teeth. 
See Citrm. (c) A name sometimes given to the plantain, 
of Mujta paraditiaca. Adam's flannel, the 
the fruit 
common mullen, Verbascun, 
hapfttx. Adam's needle 
and thread, a common name of Yucca Jila 
adamanT(adVmant);"rr. -[< MK 
ada- 
Same as maunt, ademaunt, adamaund, also athamant, 
atthamant, etc. (after AS. athamans), and ad- 
(adamant-), < Gr. aSduac (aSa/uivT-), lit. uncon- 
querable (< a- priv. + Safiav, conquer, = L. do- 
marc = E. tame, q. v.), first used (by Homer) as 
a personal epithet ; later (in Hesiod and subse- 
quent writers) as the name of a very hard metal 
such as was used in armor prob. steel, but 
endowed by imaginative writers with super- 
natural powers of resistance ; in Plato, also of 
a metal resembling gold ; in Theophrastus, of 
a gem, prob. a diamond; in Pliny, of the dia- 
mond, under which be includes also, perhaps, 
corundum; in Ovid, of the magnet; in later 
writers regarded as an anti-magnet. The name 
has thus always been of indefinite and fluctu- 
ating sense. From the same source, through 
the perverted ML. forms diamans, diamentum, 
comes E. diamant, diamond, q. v.] 1. A name 
applied with more or less indefiniteness to 
various real or imaginary metals or minerals 
characterized by extreme hardness : as (1) the 
lateral form adagio), < ad, to, + -agium, < aio diamond, (2) the natural opposite of the dia- 
IfVmef 'ASlfal IdfiXT nl Allt I ..... . Gi']r4- ~ / r,1, J/0\_l_.l 1 , 
(orig. "agio), I say, = Gr. i/pi, I say, = Skt. V all, 
say.] A pithy saying in current use ; a brief 
familiar proverb; an expression of popular 
wisdom, generally figurative, in a single phrase 
or sentence, and of remote origin. 
Unless the adage must be verified, 
That beggars, mounted, run their horse to death. 
Shak., 3 Hen. VI., i. 4. 
= Syn. Aphorixm, Axiom, Maxim, etc. See aphorism 
adagialt (a-da'ji-al), a. Of the nature of or 
containing an adage: as, "that adagial verse," 
Borrow. Works, I. 93. 
adagietto (a-da-jiet'to), n. [It., dim. of adagio, 
q. v.] In music : (a) A short adagio. (6) An 
indication of time, signifying somewhat faster 
than adagio. 
adagio (a-dii'jio), adv., a., and . [It., slowly, 
lit. at leisure, < ad, to, + agio, leisure, ease : see 
ease.] In music : I. 
mond, (3) a lodestone or magnet, and (4) an 
anti-magnet. 
The garnet and diamond, or adamant. 
Sullivan, Views of Nature, I. 438. (A T . K. D.) 
The adamant cannot draw yron, if the diamond lye 
uy it. Lylij, Euphues, sig. K, p. 10. (S. JB. D.) 
tinction to a supposed older race, called Pre- 
adamites. 
Prof. Winchell's pamphlet on Adamites and Preadam- 
ites. Pop. Sci. Mo., XIII. 600. 
3. [LL. Adamit(f, pi.] One of a sect which 
originated in the north of Africa in the second 
century, and pretended to have attained to the 
primitive innocence of Adam. Its members accord- 
ingly rejected marriage as an effect and clothing as a sign 
of sin, and appeared in their assemblies, called paradises, 
naked. This heresy reappeared in the fourteenth cen- 
tury, in Savoy, and again in the fifteenth century among 
the Brethren and Sisters of the Free Spirit, in Germany, 
Bohemia, and Moravia. It was suppressed in 1421 on 
account of the crimes and immoralities of its votaries. (See 
Picard and Picardixt.) When toleration was proclaimed 
by Joseph II., in 1781, the sect revived, but was promptly 
proscribed. Its latest appearance was during the insur- 
rection of 1848-9. 
The truth is, Teufelsdrockh, though a Sans-culottist, is 
no Adamite, and, much perhaps as he might wish to go 
forth before this degenerate age " as a sign," would no- 
wise wish to do it, as those old Adamite* did, in a state 
of nakedness. Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, p. 40. 
4. [/. <.] [After the French mineralogist M. 
Adam + -ite 2 .] A mineral occurring in small 
yellow or green crystals and in mammillary 
groups ; a hydrous arseniate of zinc, isomor- 
phous with olivenite : found in Chili, and also 
The grace of God's spirit, like the true loadstone or Lau fj um ia Gre <- e - Also called adamme. 
adamant, draws up the iron heart of man to it. ACtamitlC (ad-a-mit ik), a. [< Adamite + -c.] 
1. Of or pertaining to the descendants of Adam ; 
Up. Hall, Occas. Med., p. 62. 
The adamant ... is such an enemy to the magnet. 
Leonardm, Mirr. Stones, p. 63. (A". E. D.) 
2. In general, any substance of impenetrable 
or surpassing hardness ; that which is impreg- 
nable to any force. [It is chiefly a rhetorical 
or poetical word.] 
As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy fore- 
head. Ezek. iii. 1). 
But who would force the soul, tilts with a straw 
Agair~' - - 
pertaining to mankind ; human. 
He [Mr. Webster) was there in his Adamitic capacity, 
as if he alone of all men did not disappoint the eye and 
the ear, but was a flt figure in the landscape. 
Emerson, Fugitive Slave Law. 
2. Of, pertaining to, or resembling the sect of 
the Adamites. 
Nor is it other than rustic or Adamitic impudence to 
confine nature to itself. 
Jer. Taylor ('!), Artif. Handsomeness, p. 164^ 
Adamitical (ad-a-mit'i-kal), a. Same as Adam- 
v , ^ with grace. When repeated,' adagio, " s "' BC uuon 01 covenanter*, in. 7. Uifi 
adagio, it directs the performance to be very adamanteant (ad"a-man-te'an), a. [<L. ada- Adamitism (ad'a-mit-izm), . [< Adamite + 
slow. manteus, < adamas, adamant: see adamant.'} -ism.] 1. The doctrines of the Adamites. 2 
Hard as adamant. [Rare.] 
Chalybean temper'd steel, and frock of mail 
Adamantean proof. Milton, S. A., 1. 134. 
adamantine (ad-a-man'tin), a. _ 
tinus, < Gr. d6audi>Tivof, < doa/iac; : see adamant.} 
1. Made of adamant; having the qualities of 
adamant ; impenetrable. 
In adamantine chains shall death be bound. 
Pope, Messiah, 1. 47. 
Each gun 
From its adamantine lips 
Flung a death-cloud round the ships. 
Campbell, Battle of Baltic. 
2. Resembling the diamond in hardness or in 
luster Adamantine hards, in u. s. pol. hist. See 
hard, . Adamantine spar, (a) A very hard, hair- 
brown variety of corundum, often of adamantine or dia- 
mond-like luster. It yields a very hard powder used in 
polishing diamonds and other gems. (6) Corundum, from 
its hardness or peculiar occasional luster. ~ 
II. a. Slow : as, an adagio movement. 
III. M. A slow movement; also, a piece of 
music or part of a composition characterized by 
slow movement. 
adagyt (ad'a-ji), n. Same as adage. 
Adalia (a-da'li-a), . [NL. (Mulsant, 1851), an 
invented name.] A genus of beetles, of the 
family Coccincllidie. The commonest species is A. 
bipunctala, the two-spotted lady-bird, having a black head 
with two yellow spots on each side, the prothorax black 
and marked with yellow, the seutellum black, and the 
elytra yellowish with a central round black spot on each. 
The insect is useful in destroying plant-lice. 
Adam (ad'am), n. [< L. Adam (and Adamus), 
< Gr. 'Addfi (and 'iVrfa^or), < Hob. dddm, a hu- 
man being, male or female ; perhaps, according 
to Gesenius, < adam, be red.] 1. The name of 
the first man, the progenitor of the human 
race, according to the account of creation in 
Genesis. 2. The evil inherent in human na- 
The practice of dispensing with clothing, as did 
the Adamites, or the state of being unclothed. 
See Adamite, 3. 
[<L. adaman- adamsite (ad'amz-it), n. A name given to a 
greenish-black mica found in Derby, Vermont ; 
a variety of muscovite or common mica. 
as adv. or a. [< a 3 , 
adance(a-dans'),j>rep. phr. i 
on, + dance.} Dancing. 
ture, regarded as inherited from Adam in conse- adamantoid (ad-a-man'toid), n. [<Gr. d<5d/jaf 
quence of the fall. (dtia/iavr-), adamant, diamond, + E Mor, form : see 
-aid.} A crystal characterized by being bound- 
ed by 48 equal triangles ; a hexoctahedron. 
Consideration like an angel came, 
And whipp'd the offending Adum out of him 
,s7m/,-.. Men. V., i. i. 
St. A Serjeant or bailiff. .. 
the following quotation, and is explained by the commen- 
tators as a reference to tile fact that the bn'tf worn by the 
biiilil! resembled the native "buff" of our lirst parent. 
5 
cut under hexoctdhedron. 
This sense rcste chiefly on adambulacral (ad-am-bu-la'kral), a. 
[<L- ad, 
to, + ambulacrum, q. v.] Adjacent to the am- 
bulacra. Applied in zoijl., by way of distinction from 
amtntlaaml, to a series of ossicles in echuuxlerms which 
[You cannot] prevent Berauger from setting all pulses 
a-dance in the least rhythmic and imaginative of modem 
tongues. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 238. 
Adansonia (ad-an-so'ni-a), M. [NL. ; named in 
honor of Michel Adansoii (died 1806), a French 
naturalist who traveled in Senegal in 1749- 
53.] A genus of trees, natural order Malva- 
cew, suborder Hombacea;. A. diyitata is the Afri- 
can calabash-tree, or baobab-tree of Senegal. See baobab. 
A. Gregorii, the only other species, is the eream-of-tartar 
tree of northern Australia. See cream-of-tartar tree, under 
cream. 
Adapidae (a-dap'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Adapis 
+ -idai.} A family of extinct lemuroid mam- 
mals, of which the genus Adapis is the type. 
See Adapis (ad'a-pis), n. [NL. ; a name applied 
by Gesner, about 1550, to the common rabbit. 
Etym. unknown ; referred doubtfully to Gr. a- 
intensive + Sdmf, a rug, carpet.] A genus of 
extinct mammals of the Eocene or Lower Ter- 
tiary age, described from portions of three 
