n. The quantity of being addible; capability of addition. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being added. “Addible numbers.” Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Adze. [ Obs. ] Moxon. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. Addicted; devoted. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Addicted; p. pr. & vb. n. Addicting. ] [ L. addictus, p. p. of addicere to adjudge, devote; ad + dicere to say. See Diction. ] 1. To apply habitually; to devote; to habituate; -- with to. “They addict themselves to the civil law.” Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

He is addicted to his study. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

That part of mankind that addict their minds to speculations. Adventurer. [ 1913 Webster ]

His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man gross . . . and addicted to low company. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To adapt; to make suitable; to fit. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The land about is exceedingly addicted to wood, but the coldness of the place hinders the growth. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Addict, Devote, Consecrate, Dedicate. Addict was formerly used in a good sense; as, addicted to letters; but is now mostly employed in a bad sense or an indifferent one; as, addicted to vice; addicted to sensual indulgence. “Addicted to staying at home.” J. S. Mill. Devote is always taken in a good sense, expressing habitual earnestness in the pursuit of some favorite object; as, devoted to science. Consecrate and dedicate express devotion of a higher kind, involving religious sentiment; as, consecrated to the service of the church; dedicated to God. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being addicted; attachment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. L. addictio an adjudging. ] The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination. “His addiction was to courses vain.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Ethiopia. Population (2000) = 2, 200, 186. [ PJC ]

[ Named from Thomas Addison, M. D., of London, who first described it. ] (Med.) A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, hypotension, and loss of weight; it is due to insufficient secretion of adrenocortical hormones. Untreated disease is usually fatal. Called also chronic adrenocortical insufficiency [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

n. [ L. additamentum, fr. additus, p. p. of addere to add. ] An addition, or a thing added. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

My persuasion that the latter verses of the chapter were an additament of a later age. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. addition, L. additio, fr. addere to add. ] 1. The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution. “This endless addition or addibility of numbers.” Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything added; increase; augmentation; as, a piazza is an addition to a building. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Math.) That part of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mus.) A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Law) A title annexed to a man's name, to identify him more precisely; as, John Doe, Esq.; Richard Roe, Gent.; Robert Dale, Mason; Thomas Way, of New York; a mark of distinction; a title. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Her.) Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honor; -- opposed to abatement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Vector addition (Geom.), that kind of addition of two lines, or vectors, AB and BC, by which their sum is regarded as the line, or vector, AC. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Increase; accession; augmentation; appendage; adjunct. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Added; supplemental; in the way of an addition. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Something added. [ R. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By way of addition. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Additional. [ R. ] Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. addititius, fr. addere. ] Additive. [ R. ] Sir J. Herschel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. additivus. ] (Math.) Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to add; making some addition. [ R. ] Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat bad; inferior. Jeffrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.), a small mothlike species of trichopterous insect, whose larva is the caddice; it has two pairs of hairy membranous wings and aquatic larvae. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Written also caddy, cadie, cady, and cawdy. ] [ See Cadet. ] 1. A cadet. [ Obs. Scot. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A lad; young fellow. [ Scot. ] Burns. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. One who does errands or other odd jobs. [ Scot. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

4. An attendant who carries a golf player's clubs, tees his ball, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } n. A Scotch errand boy, porter, or messenger. [ Written also cady. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Every Scotchman, from the peer to the cadie. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Prov. E. caddy, cadew; cf. G. köder bait. ] (Zool.) The larva of a caddice fly. These larvæ generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with pieces of broken shells, gravel, bits of wood, etc. They are a favorite bait with anglers. Called also caddice worm, or caddis worm. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. caddas, Scot. caddis lint, caddes a kind of woolen cloth, cf. Gael. cada, cadadh, a kind of cloth, cotton, fustian, W. cadas, F. cadis. ] A kind of worsted lace or ribbon. “Caddises, cambrics, lawns.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as caddice fly.
Syn. -- caddice fly, caddicefly. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Like a cad; lowbred and presuming. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a person who subscribes to a variety of fads. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. intensely fashionable for a short time. [ wns=1 ]
Syn. -- trendy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. prone to follow fads; as, a faddish clique of teenagers; -- of people.
Syn. -- trendy. [ PJC ]

[ See Haddock. ] Haddock cured in peat smoke, originally at Findon (pron. f&ibreve_;n"&aitalic_;n), Scotland. The name is also applied to other kinds of smoked haddock. [Written also finnan haddock.] [1913 Webster]

a. & n. Going about much, needlessly or without purpose. [ 1913 Webster ]

Envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The good nuns would check her gadding tongue. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gadding car, in quarrying, a car which carries a drilling machine so arranged as to drill a line of holes. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a roving, idle manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Disposed to gad. -- Gad"dish*nes, n. “Gaddishness and folly.” Abp. Leighton. [1913 Webster]

n. (Zool.) The haddock. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Added or placed between the parts of another thing, as a clause inserted parenthetically in a sentence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mining) See Holing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A lad; a male sweetheart. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Affected with madness; raging; furious. -- Mad"ding*ly, adv. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. Gray. [1913 Webster]

The madding wheels
Of brazen chariots raged. Milton. [1913 Webster]

a. Somewhat mad. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or process of making a pad or of inserting stuffing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The material with which anything is padded. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Material of inferior value, serving to extend a book, essay, etc. London Sat. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Calico Printing) The uniform impregnation of cloth with a mordant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of adding something in excess or something extraneous; also, something which is added in excess or extraneously. [ 1913 Webster ]

This superaddition is nothing but fat. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] Something added or appended, as to a name. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & v. See Waddy. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ See Wad a little mass. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A wad, or the materials for wads; any pliable substance of which wads may be made. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing or padding garments; esp., sheets of carded cotton prepared for the purpose. [ 1913 Webster ]