Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 26
Adrad (p. a.) Put in dread; afraid.
Adragant (n.) Gum tragacanth.
Adread (v. t. & i.) To dread.
Adreamed (p. p.) Visited by a dream; -- used in the phrase, To be adreamed, to dream.
Adrenal (a.) Suprarenal.
Adrenal gland (n.) (Anatomy) One of a pair of ductless glands, located above the kidneys, consisting of a cortex, which produces steroidal hormones, and a medulla, which produces epinephrine and norepinephrine. Also called Suprarenal gland.
Adrenaline (n.) Also Adrenalin (Physiol. Chem.) 【生化】腎上腺素；一陣興奮（或激動） A hormone secreted by the adrenal medulla that acts as a powerful stimulant in reponse to fear or stress; it stimulates autonomic nerve action. It can be obtained as a crystalline substance, {C9H13NO3}. It is used in medicine as a vasoconstrictor (hemostatic) and cardiac stimulant, also to reduce allergic reactions and to stimulate the heart in cases of cardiac arrest. -- MI11
Syn: epinephrine; 3,4-dihydroxy-1-[1-hydroxy-2-(methylamino)-ethyl] benzene.
Adrenalin (n.) A catecholamine secreted by the adrenal medulla in response to stress (trade name Adrenalin); stimulates autonomic nerve action [syn: {epinephrine}, {epinephrin}, {adrenaline}, {Adrenalin}].
Adrian (a.) [L. Hadrianus.] Pertaining to the Adriatic Sea; as, Adrian billows.
Adrian (n.) Roman Emperor who was the adoptive son of Trajan; travelled throughout his empire to strengthen its frontiers and encourage learning and architecture; on a visit to Britain in 122 he ordered the construction of Hadrian's Wall (76-138) [syn: {Hadrian}, {Publius Aelius Hadrianus}, {Adrian}].
Compare: Frontier
Frontier (n.) [C] 國境，邊境；邊疆 [（+between/ with）]；【美】（靠近未開發地帶的）邊遠地區 [the S] A line or border separating two countries.
‘International crime knows no frontiers.’
‘France's frontier with Belgium’
[Figurative] ‘The frontier between thought and reality is confused.’
[As modifier] ‘An end to frontier controls.’
‘His novel of the American frontier.’
‘The success of science in extending the frontiers of knowledge.’
Adrian (n.) English physiologist who conducted research into the function of neurons; 1st baron of Cambridge (1889-1997) [syn: {Adrian}, {Edgar Douglas Adrian}, {Baron Adrian}].
Adriatic (a.) 亞得里亞海的 Of or pertaining to a sea so named, the northwestern part of which is known as the Gulf of Venice.
Adriatic (n.) An arm of the Mediterranean between Slovenia and Croatia and Montenegro and Albania on the east and Italy on the west [syn: {Adriatic}, {Adriatic Sea}].
Adrift (adv. & a.) Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.
Adrip (adv. & a.) In a dripping state; as, leaves all adrip.
Adrogate (v. t.) To adopt (a person who is his own master).
Adrogation (n.) A kind of adoption in ancient Rome. See Arrogation.
Adroit (a.) 熟練的，靈巧的，機敏的 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.
Adroit (a.) Quick or skillful or adept in action or thought; "an exceptionally adroit pianist"; "an adroit technician"; "his adroit replies to hecklers won him many followers"; "an adroit negotiator" [ant: {maladroit}].
Adroitly (adv.) 熟練地，敏捷地 In an adroit manner.
Adroitly (adv.) With adroitness; in an adroit manner; "he handled the situation adroitly" [ant: {maladroitly}].
Adroitness (n.) The quality of being adroit; skill and readiness; dexterity.
Adry (a.) In a dry or thirsty condition.
Adscititious (a.) 外加的；補充的 Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious. "Adscititious evidence." -- Bowring. -- Ad`sci*ti"tious*ly, adv.
Adscititious (a.) Added or derived from something outside; not inherent; "an adscititious habit rather than an inherent taste".
Adscititious (a.) Supplemental; not part of the real or essential nature of a thing; "adscititious vowels".
Adscript (a.) Held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs.
Adscript (n.) One held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf.
Adscriptive (a.) Attached or annexed to the glebe or estate and transferable with it.
Adsignification (n.) Additional signification.
Adsignify (v. t.) To denote additionally.
Adsorption (n.) 【化】吸附（作用） The process by which molecules of a substance form a thin film on the surface of a solid. Distinguished from absorption, in which the foreign substance penetrates the body of the absorbing material.
Syn: surface assimilation
Adsorption (n.) The accumulation of molecules of a gas to form a thin film on the surface of a solid [syn: adsorption, surface assimilation].
Adstrict (n.) See Astrict, and Astriction.
Adstrictory (a.) See Astrictory.
Adstringent (a.) See Astringent.
Adularia (n.) A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone.
Adulate (v. t.) 諂媚，奉承 To flatter in a servile way.
Adulate (v.) Flatter in an obsequious manner.
Adulation (n.) Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited.
Adulator (n.) A servile or hypocritical flatterer.
Adulatory (a.) Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address.
Adulatress (n.) A woman who flatters with servility.
Adult (a.) Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.
Adult (n.) A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity.
Adult scoliosis (n.) Scoliosis occuring after skeletal maturity.
Adulter (v. i.) To commit adultery; to pollute.
Adulterant (n.) That which is used to adulterate anything.
Adulterant (a.) Adulterating; as, adulterant agents and processes.
Adulterated (imp. & p. p.) of Adulterate.
Adulterating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adulterate.
Adulterate (v. t.) 攙雜，攙假 To defile by adultery. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Adulterate (v. t.) To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc.
The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue with strange words. -- Spectator.
Syn: To corrupt; defile; debase; contaminate; vitiate; sophisticate.
Adulterate (v. i.) To commit adultery. [Obs.]
Adulterate (a.) 通姦的；攙雜的，攙假的 Tainted with adultery.
Adulterate (a.) Debased by the admixture of a foreign substance; adulterated; spurious. -- A*dul"ter*ate*ly, adv. -- A*dul"ter*ate*ness, n.
Adulterate (a.) Mixed with impurities [syn: {adulterate}, {adulterated}, {debased}].
Adulterate (v.) Corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor" [syn: {load}, {adulterate}, {stretch}, {dilute}, {debase}].
Adulterate (v.) - Adulterated, - Adulterating, - Adulterator (n.) , To make (something, such as a food or drink) impure or weaker by adding something of poor quality.
Adulterate (v. t.) To corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element; especially : to prepare for sale by replacing more valuable with less valuable or inert ingredients.
// He was in the same plight as the manufacturer who has to adulterate and misrepresent his product. If he does not, some one else will. -- Upton Sinclair
Adulterate (a.) Being adulterated : Spurious.
Adulterate (a.) Tainted with adultery : Adulterous.
Adulterate (v.) [ T usually passive ] （在飲食中）摻雜，摻假 To make food or drink weaker or to lower its quality, by adding something else.
// There were complaints that the beer had been adulterated with water.
Adulteration (n.) 摻雜，摻假的東西，冒充貨 The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture.
Adulteration (n.) An adulterated state or product.
Adulteration (n.) The process of adulterating : the condition of being adulterated.
Adulteration (n.) An adulterated product.
Adulterator (n.) One who adulterates or corrupts.
Adulterer (n.) A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.
Adulterer (n.) A man who violates his religious covenant.
Adulteress (n.) A woman who commits adultery.
Adulteress (n.) A woman who violates her religious engagements.
Adulterine (a.) Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal.
Adulterine (n.) An illegitimate child.
Adulterize (v. i.) To commit adultery.
Adulterous (a.) Guilty of, or given to, adultery; pertaining to adultery; illicit.
Adulterous (a.) Characterized by adulteration; spurious.
Adulterously (adv.) In an adulterous manner.
Adulteries (n. pl. ) of Adultery
Adultery (n.) 通姦；通姦行為 [U] [C] The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband.
Note: It is adultery on the part of the married wrongdoer. The word has also been used to characterize the act of an unmarried participator, the other being married. In the United States the definition varies with the local statutes. Unlawful intercourse between two married persons is sometimes called double adultery; between a married and an unmarried person, single adultery.
Adultery (n.) - Adulteries (n. pl.) Sex between a married person and someone who is not that person's wife or husband.
Adultery (n.) Voluntary sexual intercourse between a married man and someone other than his wife or between a married woman and someone other than her husband; also : an act of adultery.
Adultery (n.) Adulteration; corruption. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Adultery (n.) (Script.) Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment.
Adultery (n.) (Script.) Faithlessness in religion. -- Jer. iii. 9.
Adultery (n.) (Old Law) The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery.
Adultery (n.) (Eccl.) The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.
Adultery (n.) Injury; degradation; ruin. [Obs.]
You might wrest the caduceus out of my hand to the adultery and spoil of nature. -- B. Jonson.
Adultery (n.) Extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations; "adultery is often cited as grounds for divorce" [syn: adultery, criminal conversation, fornication].
Adultery () Conjugal infidelity. An adulterer was a man who had illicit intercourse with a married or a betrothed woman, and such a woman was an adulteress. Intercourse between a married man and an unmarried woman was fornication. Adultery was regarded as a great social wrong, as well as a great sin.
The Mosaic law (Num. 5:11-31) prescribed that the suspected wife should be tried by the ordeal of the "water of jealousy." There is, however, no recorded instance of the application of this law. In subsequent times the Rabbis made various regulations with the view of discovering the guilty party, and of bringing about a divorce. It has been inferred from John 8:1-11 that this sin became very common during the age preceding the destruction of Jerusalem.
Idolatry, covetousness, and apostasy are spoken of as adultery spiritually (Jer. 3:6, 8, 9; Ezek. 16:32; Hos. 1:2:3; Rev. 2:22). An apostate church is an adulteress (Isa. 1:21; Ezek. 23:4, 7, 37), and the Jews are styled "an adulterous generation" (Matt. 12:39). (Comp. Rev. 12.)
Adultery () Criminal law. From ad and alter, another person; a criminal conversation, between a man married to another woman, and a woman married to another man, or a married and unmarried person. The married person is guilty of adultery, the unmarried of fornication. (q.v.) 1 Yeates, 6; 2 Dall. 124; but see 2 Blackf. 318.
Adultery () The elements of this crime are, 1st, that there shall be an unlawful carnal connexion; 2dly, that the guilty party shall at the time be married; 3dly, that he or she shall willingly commit the offence; for a woman who has been ravished against her will is not guilty of adultery. Domat, Supp. Du Droit Public, liv. 3, t. 10, n. 13.
Adultery () The punishment of adultery, in the United States, generally, is fine and imprisonment.
Adultery () In England it is left to the feeble hands of the ecclesiastical courts to punish this offence.
Adultery () Adultery in one of the married persons is good cause for obtaining a divorce by the innocent partner. See 1 Pick. 136; 8 Pick. 433; 9 Mass. 492: 14 Pick. 518; 7 Greenl. 57; 8 Greenl. 75; 7 Conn. 267 10 Conn. 372; 6 Verm. 311; 2 Fairf. 391 4 S. & R. 449; 5 Rand. 634; 6 Rand. 627; 8 S. & R. 159; 2 Yeates, 278, 466; 4 N. H. Rep. 501; 5 Day, 149; 2 N. & M. 167.
Adultery () As to proof of adultery, see
2 Greenl. Sec. 40, Marriage.
Adultery (n.) [ U ] 通姦（行為） Sex between a married man or
woman and someone he or she is not married to.
// Many people in public life have committed adultery.
Adultness (n.) The state of being adult.
Adumbrant (a.) Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth.
Adumbrate (v. t.) 畫輪廓，預示 To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth.
Adumbrate (v. t.) To overshadow; to shade.
Adumbrate (v.) Describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of; "sketch the outline of the book"; "outline his ideas" [syn: {sketch}, {outline}, {adumbrate}].
Adumbrate (v.) Give to understand; "I insinuated that I did not like his wife" [syn: {intimate}, {adumbrate}, {insinuate}].
Adumbrate (v.) [ T ] (Formal) （尤指對未來的事情）概括說明，勾畫輪廓 To give only the main facts and not the details about something, especially something that will happen in the future.
// The project's objectives were adumbrated in the report.
Adumbration (n.) 輪廓，預示，陰影 The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth.
Adumbration (n.) A faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing.
Adumbration (n.) The shadow or outlines of a figure.
Adumbrative (a.) Faintly representing; typical.
Adunation (n.) A uniting; union.
Adunc (a.) Alt. of Adunque.
Adunque (a.) Hooked; as, a parrot has an adunc bill.
Aduncity (n.) Curvature inwards; hookedness.
Aduncous (a.) Curved inwards; hooked.
Adure (v. t.) To burn up.
Adust (a.) Inflamed or scorched; fiery.
Adust (a.) Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt.
Adust (a.) Having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy.
Adusted (a.) Burnt; adust.
Adustible (a.) That may be burnt.
Adustion (n.) The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried.
Adustion (n.) Cauterization.
Ad valorem () A term used to denote a duty or charge laid upon goods, at a certain rate per cent upon their value, as stated in their invoice, -- in opposition to a specific sum upon a given quantity or number; as, an ad valorem duty of twenty per cent.
Advanced (imp. & p. p.) of Advance.
Advancing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Advance.
Advance (v. t.) To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
Advance (v. t.) To raise; to elevate.
Advance (v. t.) To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
Advance (v. t.) To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests.
Advance (v. t.) To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument.
Advance (v. t.) To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
Advance (v. t.) To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him.
Advance (v. t.) To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods.
Advance (v. t.) To extol; to laud.
Advance (v. i.) To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me.
Advance (v. i.) To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.
Advance (v. i.) To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted.
Advance (n.) The act of advancing or moving forward or upward; progress.