"adam :: Adam (n.) Original sin; human frailty..

Adam :: Adam (n.) The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race..

Adam's Apple :: Adam's apple () See under Adam.

Adamant :: Adamant (n.) 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.

Adamant :: Adamant (n.) Lodestone; magnet.

Adamantean :: Adamantean (a.) Of adamant; hard as adamant.

Adamantine :: Adamantine (a.) Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains..

Adamantine :: Adamantine (a.) Like the diamond in hardness or luster.

Adambulacral :: Adambulacral (a.) Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish..

Adamic :: Adamic (a.) Alt. of Adamica.

Adamical :: Adamical (a.) Of or pertaining to Adam, or resembling him..

Adamite :: Adamite (n.) A descendant of Adam; a human being.

Adamite :: Adamite (n.) One of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies..

Bokadam :: Bokadam (n.) See Cerberus.

Macadamization :: Macadamization (n.) The process or act of macadamizing.

Macadamize :: Macadamize (v. t.) To cover, as a road, or street, with small, broken stones, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface..

Macadamized :: Macadamized (imp. & p. p.) of Macadamiz.

Macadamizing :: Macadamizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Macadamiz.

Madam :: Madam (n.) A gentlewoman; -- an appellation or courteous form of address given to a lady, especially an elderly or a married lady; -- much used in the address, at the beginning of a letter, to a woman. The corresponding word in addressing a man is Sir..

Madame :: Madame (n.) My lady; -- a French title formerly given to ladies of quality; now, in France, given to all married women..

Madams :: Madams (pl. ) of Mada.

Maoadam Road :: Maoadam road () A macadamized road.

Preadamic :: Preadamic (a.) Prior to Adam.

Preadamite :: Preadamite (n.) An inhabitant of the earth before Adam.

Preadamite :: Preadamite (n.) One who holds that men existed before Adam.

Preadamitic :: Preadamitic (a.) Existing or occurring before Adam; preadamic; as, preadamitic periods..

Prickmadam :: Prickmadam (n.) A name given to several species of stonecrop, used as ingredients of vermifuge medicines. See Stonecrop..

Rhadamanthine :: Rhadamanthine (a.) Of or pertaining to Rhadamanthus; rigorously just; as, a Rhadamanthine judgment..

Rhadamanthus :: Rhadamanthus (n.) One of the three judges of the infernal regions; figuratively, a strictly just judge..

Tripmadam :: Tripmadam (n.) Same as Prickmadam.

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