"adonist :: Adonist (n.) One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word translated Jehovah are really the vowel points of the word Adonai. See Jehovist..

Adelantado :: Adelantado (n.) A governor of a province; a commander.

Ado :: Ado (n.) To do; in doing; as, there is nothing ado..

Ado :: Ado (n.) Doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles..

Adobe :: Adobe (n.) An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico..

Adolescence :: Adolescence (n.) The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals..

Adolescency :: Adolescency (n.) The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness.

Adolescent :: Adolescent (a.) Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.

Adolescent :: Adolescent (n.) A youth.

Adonean :: Adonean (a.) Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic.

Adonic :: Adonic (a.) Relating to Adonis, famed for his beauty..

Adonic :: Adonic (n.) An Adonic verse.

Adonis :: Adonis (n.) A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.

Adonis :: Adonis (n.) A preeminently beautiful young man; a dandy.

Adonis :: Adonis (n.) A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceae, containing the pheasant's eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower..

Adonize :: Adonize (v. t.) To beautify; to dandify.

Adoor :: Adoor () Alt. of Adoor.

Adoors :: Adoors () At the door; of the door; as, out adoors..

Adopt :: Adopt (v. t.) To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child..

Adopt :: Adopt (v. t.) To take 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..

Adoptable :: Adoptable (a.) Capable of being adopted.

Adopted :: Adopted (imp. & p. p.) of Adop.

Adopted :: Adopted (a.) Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word..

Adopter :: Adopter (n.) One who adopts.

Adopter :: Adopter (n.) A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters..

Adopting :: Adopting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adop.

Adoption :: Adoption (n.) 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..

Adoption :: Adoption (n.) Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another..

Adoption :: Adoption (n.) The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions..

Adoptionist :: Adoptionist (n.) One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.

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