n. [ Pg., the female rhinoceros. ] The rhinoceros. [ Obs. ] Purchas. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Heb. ābaddōn destruction, abyss, fr. ābad to be lost, to perish. ] 1. The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hell; the bottomless pit. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In all her gates, Abaddon rues
Thy bold attempt. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. Of unknown origin. ] A mystical word or collocation of letters written as in the figure. Worn on an amulet it was supposed to ward off fever. At present the word is used chiefly in jest to denote something without meaning; jargon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A material used for grinding, as emery, sand, powdered glass, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Abraded; p. pr. & vb. n. Abrading. ] [ L. abradere, abrasum, to scrape off; ab + radere to scrape. See Rase, Raze. ] To rub or wear off; to waste or wear away by friction; as, to abrade rocks. Lyell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. Same as Abraid. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + broad. ] 1. At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fox roams far abroad. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad. [ 1913 Webster ]

I went to St. James', where another was preaching in the court abroad. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries; as, we have broils at home and enemies abroad. “Another prince . . . was living abroad.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; widely. [ 1913 Webster ]

He went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter. Mark i. 45. [ 1913 Webster ]

To be abroad. (a) To be wide of the mark; to be at fault; as, you are all abroad in your guess. (b) To be at a loss or nonplused. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. academia. See Academy. ] An academy. [ Poetic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Academic. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A member of an academy, university, or college. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. academicus: cf. F. académigue. See Academy. ] 1. Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific. “Academic courses.” Warburton. “Academical study.” Berkeley. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an academical manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. académicien. See Academy. ] 1. A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A collegian. [ R. ] Chesterfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the position or state of being a member of an honorary academy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. A tenet of the Academic philosophy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The doctrines of the Academic philosophy. [ Obs. ] Baxter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. academiste. ] 1. An Academic philosopher. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An academician. [ Obs. ] Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Academies [ F. académie, L. academia. Cf. Academe. ] 1. A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A place of training; a school. “Academies of fanaticism.” Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A school or place of training in which some special art is taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music. [ 1913 Webster ]

Academy figure (Paint.), a drawing usually half life-size, in crayon or pencil, after a nude model. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the French-speaking part of the Canadian Maritime Provinces. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of or pertaining to Acadia, or Nova Scotia. “Acadian farmers.” Longfellow. -- n. A native of Acadie. [ 1913 Webster ]

Acadian epoch (Geol.), an epoch at the beginning of the American paleozoic time, and including the oldest American rocks known to be fossiliferous. See Geology. --
Acadian owl (Zool.), a small North American owl (Nyctule Acadica); the saw-whet. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From the city Accad. See Gen. x. 10. ] Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Ac*ca"di*an, n., Ac"cad n. Sayce. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. accolade, It. accolata, fr. accollare to embrace; L. ad + collum neck. ] 1. A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting of an embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) A brace used to join two or more staves. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ A Latin preposition, signifying to. See At. ] As a prefix ad- assumes the forms ac-, af-, ag-, al-, an-, ap-, ar-, as-, at-, assimilating the d with the first letter of the word to which ad- is prefixed. It remains unchanged before vowels, and before d, h, j, m, v. Examples: adduce, adhere, adjacent, admit, advent, accord, affect, aggregate, allude, annex, appear, etc. It becomes ac- before qu, as in acquiesce. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. adactus, p. p. of adigere. ] To compel; to drive. [ Obs. ] Fotherby. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. 'a priv. + &unr_; finger. ] (Zool.) (a) Without fingers or without toes. (b) Without claws on the feet (of crustaceous animals). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the Babylonian god of storms and wind. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. adage, fr. L. adagium; ad + the root of L. aio I say. ] An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb. [ 1913 Webster ]

Letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would, ”
Like the poor cat i' the adage. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Axiom; maxim; aphorism; proverb; saying; saw; apothegm. See Axiom. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to an adage; proverbial. “Adagial verse.” Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. A piece of music in adagio time; a slow movement; as, an adagio of Haydn. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. & adv. [ It. adagio; ad (L. ad) at + agio convenience, leisure, ease. See Agio. ] (Mus.) Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (As a symbol) “Original sin;” human frailty. [ 1913 Webster ]

And whipped the offending Adam out of him. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Adam's ale, water. [ Coll. ] --
Adam's apple. 1. (Bot.) (a) A species of banana (Musa paradisiaca). It attains a height of twenty feet or more. Paxton. (b) A species of lime (Citris limetta). 2. The projection formed by the thyroid cartilage in the neck. It is particularly prominent in males, and is so called from a notion that it was caused by the forbidden fruit (an apple) sticking in the throat of our first parent. --
Adam's flannel (Bot.), the mullein (Verbascum thapsus). --
Adam's needle (Bot.), the popular name of a genus (Yucca) of liliaceous plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. same as adamancy.
Syn. -- obstinacy, obduracy, unyieldingness, adamancy [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. 1. obstinacy.
Syn. -- obstinacy, obduracy, unyieldingness, adamance [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. 1. North American orchid (Aplectrum hyemale) bearing a single leaf and yellowish-brown flowers.
Syn. -- puttyroot. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. adamaunt, adamant, diamond, magnet, OF. adamant, L. adamas, adamantis, the hardest metal, fr. Gr. 'ada`mas, -antos; 'a priv. + dama^, n to tame, subdue. In OE., from confusion with L. adamare to love, be attached to, the word meant also magnet, as in OF. and LL. See Diamond, Tame. ] 1. A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Opposed the rocky orb
Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lodestone; magnet. [ Obs. ] “A great adamant of acquaintance.” Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

As true to thee as steel to adamant. Greene. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. adamantēus. ] Of adamant; hard as adamant. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. adamantinus, Gr. &unr_;. ] 1. Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Min.) Like the diamond in hardness or luster. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ad + E. ambulacral. ] (Zool.) Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to Adam, or resembling him. [ 1913 Webster ]

Adamic earth, a name given to common red clay, from a notion that Adam means red earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Adam. ] 1. A descendant of Adam; a human being. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies. [ 1913 Webster ]

See under Adam. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Dancing. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Dangling. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ From Adanson, a French botanist. ] (Bot.) A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, Adansonia digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and Adansonia Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. D. C. Eaton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖[ Babylonian. ] n. 1. a demigod or first man: "seed of mankind"; sometimes identified with Adam. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; their descendents probably include the lemurs and lorises; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins.
Syn. -- Adapid group [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Fitted; suited. [ Obs. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Adapted; p. pr. & vb. n. Adapting. ] [ L. adaptare; ad + aptare to fit; cf. F. adapter. See Apt, Adept. ] To make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as to fit for a new use; -- sometimes followed by to or for. [ 1913 Webster ]

For nature, always in the right,
To your decays adapts my sight. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Appeals adapted to his [ man's ] whole nature. Angus. [ 1913 Webster ]

Streets ill adapted for the residence of wealthy persons. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]