Adipoceration (n.) The act or process of changing into adipocere.
Adipocere (n.) A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration.
Adipoceriform (a.) Having the form or appearance of adipocere; as, an adipoceriform tumor.
Adipocerous (a.) Like adipocere.
Adipose (a.) Of or pertaining to animal fat; fatty.
Adiposeness (n.) Alt. of Adiposity
Adiposity (n.) The state of being fat; fatness.
Adipous (a.) Fatty; adipose.
Adipsous (a.) Quenching thirst, as certain fruits.
Adipsy (n.) Absence of thirst.
Adit (n.) An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel.
Adit (n.) Admission; approach; access.
Adjacence () Alt. of Adjacency
Adjacency () The state of being adjacent or contiguous; contiguity; as, the adjacency of lands or buildings.
Adjacency () That which is adjacent.
Adjacent (a.) Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway.
Adjacent (n.) That which is adjacent.
Adjacently (adv.) So as to be adjacent.
Adject (v. t.) To add or annex; to join.
Adjection (n.) The act or mode of adding; also, the thing added.
Adjectional (a.) Pertaining to adjection; that is, or may be, annexed.
Adjectitious () Added; additional.
Adjectival (a.) Of or relating to the relating to the adjective; of the nature of an adjective; adjective.
Adjectivally (adv.) As, or in the manner of, an adjective; adjectively.
Adjective (n.) Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an adjective word or sentence.
Adjective (n.) Not standing by itself; dependent.
Adjective (n.) Relating to procedure.
Adjective (n.) A word used with a noun, or substantive, to express a quality of the thing named, or something attributed to it, or to limit or define it, or to specify or describe a thing, as distinct from something else. Thus, in phrase, "a wise ruler," wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler.
Adjective (n.) A dependent; an accessory.
Adjectived (imp. & p. p.) of Adjective
Adjectiving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adjective
Adjective (v. t.) To make an adjective of; to form or change into an adjective.
Adjectively (adv.) In the manner of an adjective; as, a word used adjectively.
Adjoined (imp. & p. p.) of Adjoin
Adjoining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adjoin
Adjoin (v. t.) To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append.
Adjoin (v. i.) To lie or be next, or in contact; to be contiguous; as, the houses adjoin.
Adjoin (v. i.) To join one's self.
Adjoinant (a.) Contiguous.
Adjoining (a.) Joining to; contiguous; adjacent; as, an adjoining room.
Adjoint (n.) An adjunct; a helper.
Adjourned (imp. & p. p.) of Adjourn
Adjourning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adjourn
Adjourn (v. t.) To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate.
Adjourn (v. i.) To suspend business for a time, as from one day to another, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usually, to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day.
Adjournal (n.) Adjournment; postponement.
Adjournment (n.) The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.
Adjournment (n.) The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.
Adjudged (imp. & p. p.) of Adjudge
Adjudging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adjudge
Adjudge (v. t.) To award judicially in the case of a controverted question; as, the prize was adjudged to the victor.
Adjudge (v. t.) To determine in the exercise of judicial power; to decide or award judicially; to adjudicate; as, the case was adjudged in the November term.
Adjudge (v. t.) To sentence; to condemn.
Adjudge (v. t.) To regard or hold; to judge; to deem.
Adjudger (n.) One who adjudges.
Adjudgment (n.) The act of adjudging; judicial decision; adjudication.
Adjudicated (imp. & p. p.) of Adjudicate
Adjudicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adjudicate
Adjudicate (v. t.) To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.
Adjudicate (v. i.) To come to a judicial decision; as, the court adjudicated upon the case.
Adjudication (n.) The act of adjudicating; the act or process of trying and determining judicially.
Adjudication (n.) A deliberate determination by the judicial power; a judicial decision or sentence.
Adjudication (n.) The decision upon the question whether the debtor is a bankrupt.
Adjudication (n.) A process by which land is attached security or in satisfaction of a debt.
Adjudicative (a.) Adjudicating.
Adjudicator (n.) One who adjudicates.
Adjudicature (n.) Adjudication.
Adjugate (v. t.) To yoke to.
Adjument (n.) Help; support; also, a helper.
Adjuvant (n.) A substance added to an immunogenic agent to enhance the production of antibodies.
Adjuvant (n.) A substance added to a formulation of a drug which enhances the effect of the active ingredient.
Adjunct (a.) Conjoined; attending; consequent.
Adjunct (n.) Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it.
Adjunct (n.) A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate.
Adjunct (n.) A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in italics are the adjunct or adjuncts of "History."
Adjunct (n.) A quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body, judgment in the mind.
Adjunct (n.) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. [R.] See Attendant keys, under Attendant, a.
Adjunction (n.) The act of joining; the thing joined or added.
Adjunctive (a.) Joining; having the quality of joining; forming an adjunct.
Adjunctive (n.) One who, or that which, is joined.
Adjunctively (adv.) In an adjunctive manner.
Adjunctly (adv.) By way of addition or adjunct; in connection with.
Adjuration (n.) The act of adjuring; a solemn charging on oath, or under the penalty of a curse; an earnest appeal.
Adjuration (n.) The form of oath or appeal.
Adjuratory (a.) Containing an adjuration.
Adjured (imp. & p. p.) of Adjure
Adjuring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adjure
Adjure (v. t.) To charge, bind, or command, solemnly, as if under oath, or under the penalty of a curse; to appeal to in the most solemn or impressive manner; to entreat earnestly.
Adjurer (n.) One who adjures.
Adjusted (imp. & p. p.) of Adjust
Adjusting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adjust
Adjust (v. t.) To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a standard.
Adjust (v. t.) To put in order; to regulate, or reduce to system.
Adjust (v. t.) To settle or bring to a satisfactory state, so that parties are agreed in the result; as, to adjust accounts; the differences are adjusted.
Adjust (v. t.) To bring to a true relative position, as the parts of an instrument; to regulate for use; as, to adjust a telescope or microscope.
Adjustable (a.) Capable of being adjusted.
Adjustage (n.) Adjustment.
Adjuster (n.) One who, or that which, adjusts.
Adjustive (a.) Tending to adjust.
Adjustment (n.) The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation.