Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 20
Acture (n.) Action. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Acturience (n.) Tendency or impulse to act. [R.]
Acturience, or desire of action, in one form or another, whether as restlessness, ennui, dissatisfaction, or the imagination of something desirable. -- J. Grote.
Acuate (v. t.) To sharpen; to make pungent; to quicken. [Obs.] "[To] acuate the blood." -- Harvey.
Acuate (a.) Sharpened; sharp-pointed.
Acuate (a.) Ending in a sharp point [syn: acuate, acute, sharp, needlelike].
Acuation (n.) Act of sharpening. [R.]
Acuition (n.) The act of sharpening. [Obs.]
Acuity (n.) 敏銳，激烈，苛刻 Sharpness or acuteness, as of a needle, wit, etc.
Acuity (n.) Sharpness of vision; the visual ability to resolve fine detail (usually measured by a Snellen chart) [syn: acuity, visual acuity, sharp-sightedness].
Acuity (n.) A quick and penetrating intelligence; "he argued with great acuteness"; "I admired the keenness of his mind" [syn: acuteness, acuity, sharpness, keenness].
Aculeate (a.) (Zool.) Having a sting; covered with prickles; sharp like a prickle.
Aculeate (a.) (Bot.) Having prickles, or sharp points; beset with prickles.
Aculeate (a.) Severe or stinging; incisive. [R.] -- Bacon.
Aculeate (a.) Having or resembling a stinger or barb; "aculeate insects such as bees and wasps" [syn: aculeate, aculeated].
Aculeated (a.) Having a sharp point; armed with prickles; prickly; aculeate.
Aculeated (a.) Having or resembling a stinger or barb; "aculeate insects such as bees and wasps" [syn: aculeate, aculeated].
Aculeiform (a.) Like a prickle.
Aculeolate (a.) (Bot.) Having small prickles or sharp points. -- Gray.
Aculeous (a.) Aculeate. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Aculei (n. pl. ) of Aculeus.
Aculeus (n.) (Bot.) A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses. -- Lindley.
Aculeus (n.) (Zool.) A sting.
Acumen (n.) 敏銳，聰明 Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination. -- Selden.
Syn: Sharpness; sagacity; keenness; shrewdness; acuteness.
Acumen (n.) A tapering point.
Acumen (n.) Shrewdness shown by keen insight [syn: insightfulness, acumen].
Acuminate (a.) Tapering to a point; pointed; as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc.
Acuminate (v. t.) To render sharp or keen. [R.] "To acuminate even despair." -- Cowper.
Acuminate (v. i.) To end in, or come to, a sharp point. "Acuminating in a cone of prelacy." -- Milton.
Acuminate (a.) (Of a leaf shape) Narrowing to a slender point.
Acuminate (v.) Make sharp or acute; taper; make (something) come to a point.
Acumination (n.) A sharpening; termination in a sharp point; a tapering point. -- Bp. Pearson.
Acuminose (a.) Terminating in a flat, narrow end. -- Lindley.
Acuminous (a.) Characterized by acumen; keen. -- Highmore.
Acupressure (n.) (Surg.) A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface. -- Simpson.
Acupuncturation (n.) See Acupuncture.
Acupuncture (v. t.) 對……施行針灸治療 To treat with acupuncture.
Acupuncture (n.) 針刺，針刺療法 [U] Pricking with a needle; a needle prick. Specifically;
Acupuncture (n.) (Med.) The insertion of needles into the living tissues for remedial purposes , such as to relieve pain. It was first recorded as being practised in China, and the technique is believed to be over 2,000 years old. AS
Acupuncture, () (An NIH Consensus Statement prepared by a nonadvocate, non-Federal panel of experts) November 3-5, 1997 Vol. 15, No. 5
Acupuncture as a therapeutic intervention is widely practiced in the United States. While there have been many studies of its potential usefulness, many of these studies provide equivocal results because of design, sample size, and other factors. The issue is further complicated by inherent difficulties in the use of appropriate controls, such as placebos and sham acupuncture groups. However, promising results have emerged, for example, showing efficacy of acupuncture in adult post-operative and chemotherapy nausea and vomiting and in post-operative dental pain. There are other situations such as addiction, stroke rehabilitation, headache, menstrual cramps, tennis elbow, fibromyalgia, myofacial pain, osteoarthritis, low back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, and asthma where acupuncture may be useful as an adjunct treatment or an acceptable alternative or be included in a comprehensive management program. Further research is likely to uncover additional areas where acupuncture interventions will be useful.
Acupuncture (n.) Treatment of pain or disease by inserting the tips of needles at specific points on the skin [syn: acupuncture, stylostixis].
Acustumaunce (n.) See Accustomance. [Obs.]
Acutangular (a.) 銳角的 Acute-angled.
Acute (v. t.) To give an acute sound to; as, he acutes his rising inflection too much. [R.] -- Walker.
Acute (a.) 尖銳的；敏銳的；劇烈的，激烈的；嚴重的；【醫】急性的；【數】銳角的；高音的，尖聲的；【語】尖（重）音的 [B] Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed; -- opposed to blunt or obtuse; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf.
Acute (a.) Having nice discernment; perceiving or using minute distinctions; penetrating; clever; shrewd; -- opposed to dull or stupid; as, an acute observer; acute remarks, or reasoning.
Acute (a.) Having nice or quick sensibility; susceptible to slight impressions; acting keenly on the senses; sharp; keen; intense; as, a man of acute eyesight, hearing, or feeling; acute pain or pleasure.
Acute (a.) High, or shrill, in respect to some other sound; -- opposed to grave or low; as, an acute tone or accent.
Acute (a.) (Med.) Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; -- opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease. AS
Acute angle (Geom.), An angle less than a right angle.
Syn: Subtile; ingenious; sharp; keen; penetrating; sagacious; sharp-witted; shrewd; discerning; discriminating. See Subtile.
Acute (a.) Severe, for a short time.
Acute (a.) Having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course; "acute appendicitis"; "the acute phase of the illness"; "acute patients" [ant: chronic].
Acute (a.) Extremely sharp or intense; "acute pain"; "felt acute annoyance"; "intense itching and burning" [syn: acute, intense].
Acute (a.) Having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations" [syn: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp].
Acute (a.) Of an angle; less than 90 degrees [ant: obtuse].
Acute (a.) Ending in a sharp point [syn: acuate, acute, sharp, needlelike].
Acute (a.) Of critical importance and consequence; "an acute (or critical) lack of research funds".
Acute (n.) A mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation [syn: acute accent, acute, ague].
ACUTE, () Airbus Cockpit Universal Thrust Emulator (Airbus, A380).
Acute-angled (a.) 銳角的 Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle.
Acutely (adv.) 尖銳地；敏銳地 In an acute manner; sharply; keenly; with nice discrimination.
Acutely (adv.) In an acute manner; "she pitied her sister acutely"; "acutely aware".
Acutely (adv.) Having a rapid onset; "an acutely debilitating virus" [ant: chronically].
Acutely (adv.) Changing suddenly in direction and degree; "the road twists sharply after the light"; "turn sharp left here"; "the visor was acutely peaked"; "her shoes had acutely pointed toes" [syn: sharply, sharp, acutely].
Acutely (adv.) In a shrewd manner; "he invested his fortune astutely"; "he was acutely insightful" [syn: astutely, shrewdly, sagaciously, sapiently, acutely].
Acuteness (n.) 銳利，敏銳，劇烈 The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle.
Acuteness (n.) The faculty of nice discernment or perception; acumen; keenness; sharpness; sensitiveness; -- applied to the senses, or the understanding. By acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or slight impressions: by acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions.
Perhaps, also, he felt his professional acuteness interested in bringing it to a successful close. -- Sir W. Scott.
Acuteness (n.) Shrillness; high pitch; -- said of sounds.
Acuteness (n.) (Med.) Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.
Syn: Penetration; sagacity; keenness; ingenuity; shrewdness; subtlety; sharp-wittedness.
Acuteness (n.) A sensitivity that is keen and highly developed; "dogs have a remarkable acuteness of smell".
Acuteness (n.) A quick and penetrating intelligence; "he argued with great acuteness"; "I admired the keenness of his mind" [syn: acuteness, acuity, sharpness, keenness].
Acuteness (n.) The quality of having a sharp edge or point [ant: obtuseness].
Acutifoliate (a.) (Bot.) Having sharp-pointed leaves.
Acutilobate (a.) (Bot.) Having acute lobes, as some leaves.
Ad- () 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.
AD, () Active Directory (MS, Windows, AD, DS)
AD, () Authorized Distributor (DEC)
AD, () Analog-to-Digital (D/A), "A/D"
AD, () Autonomous Domain
Adact (v. t.) To compel; to drive. [Obs.] -- Fotherby. Adactyl
Adactyl (a.) Alt. of Adactylous.
Adactylous (a.) (Zool.) Without fingers or without toes.
Adactylous (a.) (Zool.) Without claws on the feet (of crustaceous animals).
Adage (n.) 古話，格言，諺語 An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb.
Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i' the adage. -- Shak.
Syn: Axiom; maxim; aphorism; proverb; saying; saw; apothegm. See Axiom.
Adage (n.) A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people [syn: proverb, adage, saw, byword].
Adage (n.) Boned wisdom for weak teeth.
Adagial (a.) Pertaining to an adage; proverbial. "Adagial verse. -- Barrow.
Adagio (a. & adv.) (Mus.) Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow.
Adagio (n.) A piece of music in adagio time; a slow movement; as, an adagio of Haydn.
Adagio (adv.) Slowly; "here you must play adagio".
Adagio (a.) (Of tempo) Leisurely.
Adagio (n.) (Music) A composition played in adagio tempo (slowly and gracefully); "they played the adagio too quickly".
Adagio (n.) A slow section of a pas de deux requiring great skill and strength by the dancers.
Adam (n.) The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race.
Adam (n.) (As a symbol) "Original sin;" human frailty.
And whipped the offending Adam out of him. -- Shak.
Adam's ale, Water. [Coll.]
Adam's apple. (Bot.) (a) A species of banana ({Musa paradisiaca). It attains a height of twenty feet or more. -- Paxton.
Adam's apple. (Bot.) (b) A species of lime ({Citris limetta).
Adam's apple. () 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 flannel (Bot.), the mullein ({Verbascum thapsus).
Adam's+needle+(Bot.),+The+popular+name+of+a+genus+({Yucca">Adam's needle (Bot.), the popular name of a genus ({Yucca) of liliaceous plants.
Adam (n.) (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythology; the first man and the husband of Eve and the progenitor of the human race.
Adam (n.) Scottish architect who designed many public buildings in England and Scotland (1728-1792) [syn: Adam, Robert Adam].
Adam (n.) Street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine [syn: Adam, ecstasy, XTC, go, disco biscuit, cristal, X, hug drug].
ADAM, () A Data Management system.
Adam, () Red, a Babylonian word, the generic name for man, having the same meaning in the Hebrew and the Assyrian languages. It was the name given to the first man, whose creation, fall, and subsequent history and that of his descendants are detailed in the first book of Moses (Gen. 1:27-ch. 5). "God created man [Heb., Adam] in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."
Adam was absolutely the first man whom God created. He was formed out of the dust of the earth (and hence his name), and God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and gave him dominion over all the lower creatures (Gen. 1:26; 2:7). He was placed after his creation in the Garden of Eden, to cultivate it, and to enjoy its fruits under this one prohibition: "Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."
The first recorded act of Adam was his giving names to the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, which God brought to him for this end. Thereafter the Lord caused a deep sleep to fall upon him, and while in an unconscious state took one of his ribs, and closed up his flesh again; and of this rib he made a woman, whom he presented to him when he awoke. Adam received her as his wife, and said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." He called her Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
Being induced by the tempter in the form of a serpent to eat the forbidden fruit, Eve persuaded Adam, and he also did eat. Thus man fell, and brought upon himself and his posterity all the sad consequences of his transgression. The narrative of the Fall comprehends in it the great promise of a Deliverer (Gen. 3:15), the "first gospel" message to man. They were expelled from Eden, and at the east of the garden God placed a flame, which turned every way, to prevent access to the tree of life (Gen. 3). How long they were in Paradise is matter of mere conjecture.
Shortly after their expulsion Eve brought forth her first-born, and called him Cain. Although we have the names of only three of Adam's sons, viz., Cain, Abel, and Seth, yet it is obvious that he had several sons and daughters (Gen. 5:4). He died aged 930 years.
Adam and Eve were the progenitors of the whole human race. Evidences of varied kinds are abundant in proving the unity of the human race. The investigations of science, altogether independent of historical evidence, lead to the conclusion that God "hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth" (Acts 17:26. Comp. Rom. 5:12-12; 1 Cor. 15:22-49).
Adam, () Earthy; red.
Adamant (n.) [U] 堅石；堅固無比的物質 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.
Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. -- Milton.
Adamant (n.) Lodestone; magnet. [Obs.] "A great adamant of acquaintance." -- Bacon.
As true to thee as steel to adamant. -- Greene.
Adamant (a.) Impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; "he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency" [syn: adamant, adamantine, inexorable, intransigent].
Adamant (n.) Very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem [syn: diamond, adamant].
Adamant, () (Heb. shamir), Ezek. 3:9. The Greek word adamas means diamond.
This stone is not referred to, but corundum or some kind of hard steel. It is an emblem of firmness in resisting adversaries of the truth (Zech. 7:12), and of hard-heartedness against the truth (Jer. 17:1).
Adamant, (n.) A mineral frequently found beneath a corset. Soluble in solicitate of gold.
Adamant (n.) A stone (as a diamond) formerly believed to be of impenetrable hardness; an unbreakable or extremely hard substance.
Adamant (a.) 堅硬無比的；堅定不移的；固執的 [（+about/ in/ to）[+（that）] Not willing to change an opinion or decision; very determined.
Adamantean (a.) Of adamant; hard as adamant. -- Milton.
Adamantean (a.) (Rare) 堅硬的；極堅固的；堅定的 Having the hardness or strength of adamant; = "Adamantine".
Adamantine (a.) 堅硬的；極堅固的；堅定的 Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.
Adamantine (a.) (Min.) Like the diamond in hardness or luster.
Adamantine (a.) Consisting of or having the hardness of adamant.
Adamantine (a.) Having the hardness of a diamond.
Adamantine (a.) Impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; "he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency" [syn: {adamant}, {adamantine}, {inexorable}, {intransigent}].
Adamantine (a.) Made of or having the quality of adamant.
Adamantine (a.) Rigidly firm : unyielding. Adamantine (a.) Resembling the diamond in hardness or luster.
Adambulacral (a.) (Zool.) Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish. Adamic
Adamic (a.) Alt. of Adamical.
Adamical (a.) Of or pertaining to Adam, or resembling him.
Adamic earth, A name given to common red clay, from a notion that Adam means red earth.
Adamite (n.) A descendant of Adam; a human being.
Adamite (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies.
Adam's apple () See under Adam.
Adance (adv.) Dancing. -- Lowell.
Adangle (adv.) Dangling. -- Browning.
Adansonia (n.) (Bot.) A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. 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.
Adansonia (n.) Baobab; cream-of-tartar tree [syn: Adansonia, genus Adansonia].
Adapt (a.) Fitted; suited. [Obs.] -- Swift.
Adapted (imp. & p. p.) of Adapt.
Adapting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adapt.
Adapt (v. t.) 使適應，使適合 [（+to）]；改編，改寫 [（+for）]；改建，改造 [（+for）] 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.
For nature, always in the right, To your decays adapts my sight. -- Swift.
Appeals adapted to his [man's] whole nature. -- Angus.
Streets ill adapted for the residence of wealthy persons. -- Macaulay.
Adapt (v.) (v. i.) 適應 [（+to）] Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country" [syn: {adapt}, {accommodate}].
Adapt (v.) Adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions; "We must adjust to the bad economic situation" [syn: {adjust}, {conform}, {adapt}].
ADAPT, () (Acronym) Architecture Design, Analysis, and Planning Tool.
ADAPT, () A subset of APT.
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Adaptability (n.) 適應性 Alt. of Adaptableness.
Adaptability (n.) 適應性 The quality of being adaptable; suitableness. "General adaptability for every purpose." -- Farrar.
Adaptability (n.) The ability to change (or be changed) to fit changed circumstances [ant: unadaptability].
Adaptability (n.) (Biology) Variability in respect to, or under the influence of, external conditions; susceptibility of an organism to that variation whereby it becomes suited to or fitted for its conditions of environment; the capacity of an organism to be modified by circumstances.
Adaptableness (n.) 適應性 The quality of being adaptable; suitableness. "General adaptability for every purpose." -- Farrar.
Adaptable (a.) 能適應的，可修改的 Capable of being adapted.
Adaptable (a.) Capable of adapting (of becoming or being made suitable) to a particular situation or use; "to succeed one must be adaptable"; "the frame was adaptable to cloth bolts of different widths" [ant: unadaptable].
Adaptation (n.) 改編，適應，改編成的作品 The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. "Adaptation of the means to the end." -- Erskine.
Adaptation (n.) The result of adapting; an adapted form.
Adaptation (n.) A written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form; "the play is an adaptation of a short novel" [syn: adaptation, version].
Adaptation (n.) The process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions) [syn: adaptation, adaption, adjustment].
Adaptation (n.) (Physiology) The responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light).
Adaptation (n.) (Also Adaption) (C1) [ U ] 適應 The process of changing to suit different conditions.
// Evolution occurs as a result of adaptation to new environments.
Adaptation (n.) [ C ] （電影、書、劇本等的）改編 A film, book, play, etc. that has been made from another film, book, play, etc.
// Last year he starred in the film adaptation of Bill Cronshaw's best-selling novel.
Adaptative (a.) Adaptive. -- Stubbs.
Adaptative (a.) Having a capacity for adaptation; "the adaptive coloring of a chameleon" [syn: adaptive, adaptative] [ant: maladaptive].
Adaptedness (n.) The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.
Adapter (n.) One who adapts.
Adapter (n.) (Chem.) A connecting tube; an adopter.
Compare: Adopter
Adopter (n.) One who adopts.
Adopter (n.) (Chem.) 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. [Written also adapter.]
Adapter (n.) A musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance [syn: arranger, adapter, transcriber].
Adapter (n.) Device that enables something to be used in a way different from that for which it was intended or makes different pieces of apparatus compatible [syn: adapter, adaptor].
Adaption (n.) Adaptation. -- Cheyne.
Adaptive (a.) Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting. -- Coleridge. -- A*dapt"ive*ly, adv.
Adaptive (a.) Having a capacity for adaptation; "the adaptive coloring of a chameleon" [syn: adaptive, adaptative] [ant: maladaptive].
Adaptive (a.) (Specialized) 適應的；有適應性的 Having an ability to change to suit different conditions.
Adaptiveness (n.) The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.
Adaptly (adv.) In a suitable manner. [R.] -- Prior.
Adaptness (n.) Adaptedness. [R.]
Adaptorial (a.) Adaptive. [R.]
Adar (n.) The twelfth month of the Hebrew ecclesiastical year, and the sixth of the civil. It corresponded nearly with March.
Adar (n.) The sixth month of the civil year; the twelfth month of the ecclesiastic year in the Jewish calendar (in February and March).
Adar, () Large, the sixth month of the civil and the twelfth of the ecclesiastical year of the Jews (Esther 3:7, 13; 8:12; 9:1, 15, 17, 19, 21). It included the days extending from the new moon of our March to the new moon of April. The name was first used after the Captivity. When the season was backward, and the lambs not yet of a paschal size, or the barley not forward enough for abib, then a month called Veadar, i.e., a second Adar, was intercalated.
Adar, () High; eminent.
Adarce (n.) A saltish concretion on reeds and grass in marshy grounds in Galatia. It is soft and porous, and was formerly used for cleansing the skin from freckles and tetters, and also in leprosy. -- Dana.
Adatis (n.) A fine cotton cloth of India.
Adaunt (v. t.) To daunt; to subdue; to mitigate. [Obs.] -- Skelton.
Adaw (v. t.) To subdue; to daunt. [Obs.]
The sight whereof did greatly him adaw. -- Spenser.
Adaw (v. t. & i.) To awaken; to arouse. [Obs.]
A man that waketh of his sleep He may not suddenly well taken keep Upon a thing, ne seen it parfitly Till that he be adawed verily. -- Chaucer.
Adays (adv.) By day, or every day; in the daytime. [Obs.] -- Fielding.
Ad captandum () A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor.
Added (imp. & p. p.) of Add.
Adding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Add.
Add (v. t.) To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).
The Lord shall add to me another son. -- Gen. xxx. 24.