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Show AD AD To ApCO'RPORATE But yet you draw not iron 3 for my hear Is true as ftecl Let him change his lodging from one part o the town to another, which is .a great adamant o acquaintance Bacon ApaMANTEAN ad [fro adamant. Hard as adamant \Q Shakefpeare He weaponlefs himfelf Made arms ridiculous, ufelefs the forger Of brazen fhield and fpear, the hammer'd cuirafs _ Chalybean temper'd fteel, and frock of mai lamantean proof Milton . This wor "this paflage occurs, perhaps, only i ADAMA'NTINE. adj. [adamantinus, Lat. 1. Made of adamant Wide is the fronting gate, and rais'd on hig With adamantine columns, threats the fky Dryden 2. Having the qualities of adamant hardnefs, indiffolubility as Could Eve's weak hand, extended to the tree In funder rend that adamantine chain Whofe golden links, effets and caufes be And which-to God's own chair doth fix'd remain Dawies An eternal fterility muft have poflefled th world, where all things had been fixed and faftened everlaftingly with the adamantine chains o fpecific gravity; if the Almighty had not fpoke and {aid, Let the earth bring forth grafs, the her yielding feed, and the fruit-tree yielding fruit afte its kind ; and it was fo Bentley In adamantine chains fhall death be bound And hell's grim tyrant feel th® eternal wound k Pope Tho' adamantine bonds the chief reftrain The dire reftraint his wifdom will defeat one thing to another Pope portion to {uit to pro >Tis true, but let it not be known My eyes are fomewhat dimmith grown ‘To your decays adapts my fight Savift It is not enough that nothing offends the ear but a good poet will adapt the very founds, a well as words, to the things he treats of Pope's Letters ApaPTa'TION. 2. /. [from adapt.] 'Th a& of fitting one thing to another ; th fitnefs of one thing to another Some fpecies there be of middle natures, tha is, of bird and beaft, as batts; yet are their part fo fet together, that we cannot define the beginning or end of either, there being a commixtio of both, rather than adaptation or cement of th one unto the other Brown's Vulgar Errours Adhefion may be in part afcribed, either t fome eclaftical motion in the prefled glafs, or t the exquifite adaptation of the almoft numberlefs numerou th little cavitie Apa'PTION. 7. /. [from adapt. of fitting o are Boyle The a It were alone a fufficient work to fhew all th neceflities, the wife contrivances, and pruden adaptions, of thefe admirable machines, for th benefit of the whole Cheyne. ; Apa'Prvess. n. /. [for adaptednefs, fro adapt. Som notes are to difplay the adaptnefs of th found to the fenfe iV th whereb furfaces do lock in with one another as it were, clafped together an of the other Dr. Neavton This word I have found no wher elfe 3 which fee 7o ADD. «. a, [addo an axe. Lat. 1. To join fomething to that whic before wa Sax 70 ADDYI'CT. w. a. [addico, Lat. 1. To devote, to dedicate, in fenfe; which is rarely ufed Mark if his birth makes any difference 1f to his words it adds one grain of fenfe. Dryden They, whofe mufes have the higheft flown Add not to his immortal memory But do an aét-of friendfhip to their own from aoere The addice hath its blade made thin and fomevhat arching As the axe hath its edge paralle to its handle, fo the addice hath its edge athwar the handle, and is ground to a bafil on its infi to its outer edge Moxon's Mecharnical Excrcifes goo Dryden Ye know the houfe of Stephanus, that~the have addifted themfelves to the miniftry of th faints 1 Cor. xvi. 15 mind, of any quantity, he can repeat it, and ad it o the former, as eafily as he can add rogethe the ideas of two days, or two years Locke 1 am neither author or fautor of any fe&: will have no man addi& himfelf to me; but if 2. To perform the mental operation o adding one number or conception to 2. It is commonly taken in a bad fenfe as, be addifted himfelf to vice another To add to is proper, but t 3. To devote one's felf to any perfon add together {eems a foleci{m Whatfoever pofitive ideas a man has in hi party, or perfuafion A Latinifm have an thing right, defend it as truth's A'DpARLE. adj. [from add. That t which fomething may be added. A4dible is more proper. It fignifies mor properly that which may be added Thofe kno @. a [fro efteem ; to account deem. Di& T His companies unletter'd, rude, and fhallow His hours fill'd up with riots, banquets, fports Sharkefp She fcorns to be addeem'd fo worthlefs-bafe A'DDITAMENT. n. /. [additamentum, Lat. The addition, or thing added Iron will not incorporate with brafs metals, of itfelf, by fimple fire: fo a qu'ry muft be upon the calcination, an ditament, and the charge of them In a palace there is firft the cafe o A'ppER. 7./. [ZErzen, Krron, Nadbdpe as it feems from erccen, Sax. poifon. A ferpent, a viper, a poifonous reptile perhaps of any {pecies In commo language, adders and fiakes are not th fame cated to it plant imagine 1. The a& of adding one thing to another oppofed to diminution The infinite diftance between the Creator an the nobleft of all creatures, can never be mea The name of by S#izuer t be f named, becaufe {ferpents lurk about it fured be added It will not be modeftly done, if any of ou own wifdom intrude or interpofe, or be willing t make additions to what Chrift and his apofile Hammond have defigned Some fuch refemblances, methinks, I fin The clegreft idea it can get of infinity, is th confufed, incomprehenfible remainder of endlefs, addible numbers, whic ftop, or boundary afford n profpect o Locke Appipi'LiTY. 7 /. [from addible.] Th poflibility of being added This endlefs addition, or addibility (if any on t n ar ap f s be nu o te be wo th lik the mind, is that which gives us the cleareft an moft diftinét idea of infinity A'DDIcE Of our laft evening's talk, in this thy dream But with addition ftrange The abolithing of villanage cuffom permitted among th Locke 7. /. [for which we corruptl Milton together with th nobles, of fellin their lands, was a mighty addition to the power o z./. An herb fo named See AppaBLE Bentley z. Additament, or the thing added It hath no vifible flower; but the feeds ar produced on a fpike, which refembles a ferpent' tongue; which feed is contained in many longiMiller tudinal cells The moft common fimples are comfrey; bugle agrimony, fanicle, paul's-betony, fluellin, periWifeman's Surgery winkle, adder's-tongue on account of its virtue, real or {uppofed, of curing the bite of ferpents A'DDIBLE. adj. [from add.] Poflible t of finit additio nor exhaufted by endlef degrees A'DDER'S-TONGUE. #n. f. [ophiogloflum The name of an herb Lat. A'DDER's-WORT Hale's Origin of Mankind Appi'rion. z /. [from add. Than thine, thou ferpent, never adder ftung Shakefpeare The adder teaches us where to firike, by he curious and fearful defending of her head. Taylor #. / nor othe the enthe adBacon fabrick or moles of the ftruéture itfelf; and, befides that there are certain additaments that contribute to it ornament and ufe; as, various furniture, rar fountains and aqueduéts, divers things appendi Becaufe his painted fkin contents the eye Shakefpeare An adder did it; for, with doubler tongu A'ppER's-Grass Boyle It is a wonder how his grace fhould glean it Since his addiction was to coutfes vain This word is no out of ufe little I have remitted of m App1'cTION. 7. /. [addiftio, Lat. 1. The aé of devoting, or giving up z. The ftate of being devoted Zo ApDE'CiMATE. . a. [addecimo, Lat. To AppEEM ho former addiffednefs to make chymical experiments The firft number in every addition is calle the addable number, the other, the number o numbers added, and the number invented by th addition, the aggregate or fum Cocker To take or afcertain tithes Ben Fonfon Appi'cTEDNESS. 7. f. [from addited. The quality or ftate of being addicted Or is the adder better than the eel For nature, always in the right though very fmall, afperities of the one unite one body with anufually wrote accorporare Daniel's Civil Wars A'paM's-aPPLE. 7. /. [in anatomy.] prominent part of the throat To ADA'PT. . a. [adapto, Lat.] To fi fpeak and write adz As to be mov'd to fuch an infamy And foon reftore him to his regal feat i corpus.] T other; mor w. a. [from ad an Savift the commons 3. In arithmetick _Addition is the reduétion of two or more numbers of like kind together into one fum or total Cocker's Arithmetick A title given to 2 man ave 4. Inlaw and above his chriftian name and furname thewin hi eftate degree, ~oc cupation, trade, age, place of dwelling Cowell Only retai The name, and all th' addition to a king The fivay, revenue, execution Beloved fons, be yours; which to confirm coronet p part between ¥ you.Shakefp. King Lear his corone Thi E Fro You draw me, you hard-hearted adamam AD |