Adrogate :: Adrogate (v. t.) To adopt (a person who is his own master).

Adrogation :: Adrogation (n.) A kind of adoption in ancient Rome. See Arrogation.

Adroit :: Adroit (a.) Dexterous in the use of the hands or in the exercise of the mental faculties; exhibiting skill and readiness in avoiding danger or escaping difficulty; ready in invention or execution; -- applied to persons and to acts; as, an adroit mechanic, an adroit reply..

Adroitly :: Adroitly (adv.) In an adroit manner.

Adroitness :: Adroitness (n.) The quality of being adroit; skill and readiness; dexterity.

Anadrom :: Anadrom (n.) A fish that leaves the sea and ascends rivers.

Anadromous :: Anadromous (a.) Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc..

Anadromous :: Anadromous (a.) Tending upwards; -- said of terns in which the lowest secondary segments are on the upper side of the branch of the central stem.

Beadroll :: Beadroll (n.) A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general..

Breadroot :: Breadroot (n.) The root of a leguminous plant (Psoralea esculenta), found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food..

Catadrome :: Catadrome (n.) A race course.

Catadrome :: Catadrome (n.) A machine for raising or lowering heavy weights.

Catadromous :: Catadromous (a.) Having the lowest inferior segment of a pinna nearer the rachis than the lowest superior one; -- said of a mode of branching in ferns, and opposed to anadromous..

Catadromous :: Catadromous (a.) Living in fresh water, and going to the sea to spawn; -- opposed to anadromous, and said of the eel..

Catanadromous :: Catanadromous (a.) Ascending and descending fresh streams from and to the sea, as the salmon; anadromous..

Diadrom :: Diadrom (n.) A complete course or vibration; time of vibration, as of a pendulum..

Hadrosaurus :: Hadrosaurus (n.) An American herbivorous dinosaur of great size, allied to the iguanodon. It is found in the Cretaceous formation..

Haemadrometer :: Haemadrometer (n.) Alt. of Haemadremomete.

Haemadrometry :: Haemadrometry (n.) Alt. of Haemadromometr.

Haemadromograph :: Haemadromograph (n.) An instrument for registering the velocity of the blood.

Haemadromometry :: Haemadromometry (n.) Same as Hemadrometry.

Headroom :: Headroom (n.) See Headway, 2..

Headrope :: Headrope (n.) That part of a boltrope which is sewed to the upper edge or head of a sail.

Hemadrometer :: Hemadrometer (n.) Alt. of Hemadromomete.

Hemadrometry :: Hemadrometry (n.) Alt. of Hemadromometr.

Hemadromometer :: Hemadromometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the velocity with which the blood moves in the arteries.

Hemadromometry :: Hemadromometry (n.) The act of measuring the velocity with which the blood circulates in the arteries; haemotachometry.

Ladrone :: Ladrone (n.) A robber; a pirate; hence, loosely, a rogue or rascal..

Lampadrome :: Lampadrome (n.) A race run by young men with lighted torches in their hands. He who reached the goal first, with his torch unextinguished, gained the prize..

Leggiadro :: Leggiadro (a. & adv.) Alt. of Leggier.

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