Emily Dickinson Lexicon

A-DOR'ER, n.

One who worships, or honors as divine; in popular language, an admiring lover.

A-DOR-ING, ppr.

or a. Honoring or addressing as divine; regarding with great love or reverence.

A-DOR-ING-LY, adv.

By adoration.

A-DORN', a.

Adorned; decorated. [Obs.] Milton

A-DORN', n.

Ornament. [Obs.] Spenser.

A-DORN', v.t. [L. adorno, ad and orno, to deck, or beautify, to dress, set off, extol, furnish; Fr. orner; Sp. Port. ornar; It. ornare; Arm. aourna. Orno is probably the Saxon hrinan, gerenian, gerinan, gehrinan, to touch, to strike, to adorn, that is, to put on.]

1. To deck or decorate; to make beautiful; to add to beauty by dress; to deck with external ornaments. A bride adorneth herself with jewels. Isa. vi.
2. To set off to advantage; to add ornaments to; to embellish, by any thing external or adventitious; as, to adorn a speech by appropriate action, sentiments with elegance of language, or a gallery with pictures.
3. To make pleasing, or more pleasing; as, great abilities adorned by virtue or affability.
4. To display the beauty or excellence of; as, to adorn the doctrine of God. Titus ii.

A-DORN'ED, pp.

Decked; decorated; embellished.

A-DORN'ER, n.

One who adorns.

A-DORN'ING, n.

Ornament; decoration. 1 Pet. iii.

A-DORN'ING, ppr.

Ornamenting; decorating; displaying beauty.

A-DORN'ING-LY, adv.

By adorning.

A-DORN'MENT, n.

An adorning, ornament.

AD-OS-CU-LA'TION, n. [L. ad and osculatio, a kissing, from osculum, a kiss, or mouth.]

The impregnation of plants by the falling of the farina on the pistils. Encyc. Adosculation is also defined to be the inserting of one part of a plant into another. Crabbe.

A-DOS'SED, a. [Fr. adossée, part. of adosser, to set back to back; dos, the back.]

In heraldry, denoting two figures or bearings placed back to back. Encyc.

A-DOWN', prep. [a and down.]

From a higher to a lower situation; downward; implying descent.

A-DOWN', adv.

Down; on the ground; at the bottom.

A-DREAD, a. adred'. [See Dread.]

Affected by dread. [Obs.]

A-DRI-AT'IC, a. [L. Adria or Hadria, the Gulf of Venice.]

Pertaining to the gulf called, from Venice, the Venetian Gulf.

A-DRI-AT'IC, n.

The Venetian Gulf; a gulf that washes the eastern side of Italy.

A-DRIFT', a.

or adv. [Sax. adrifan, gedrifan, and drifan, to drive. [See Drive.] Adrift is the participle of the verb.] Literally, driven; floating; floating at random; impelled or moving without direction. As an adjective, it always follows its noun; as, the boat was adrift.

AD-RO-GA'TION, n. [L. ad and rogo, to ask. See Interrogate and Rogation.]

A species of adoption in ancient Rome, by which a person, capable of choosing for himself, was admitted into the relation of a son. So called from the questions put to the parties. Encyc.

A-DROIT', a. [Fr. from droit, right, straight, direct; whence droite, the right hand; It. diritto, right, straight, contracted from the L. directus, dirigo; Arm. dret. See Right.]

Dextrous; skillful; active in the use of the hand, and figuratively, in the exercise of the mental faculties; ingenious; ready in invention or execution.

A-DROIT'LY, adv.

With dexterity; in a ready, skillful manner. Chesterfield.

A-DROIT'NESS, n.

Dexterity; readiness in the use of the limbs, or of the mental faculties. Horne.

A-DRY', a. [Sax. adrigan, to dry.]

Thirsty, in want of drink. [This adjective always follows the noun.] Spectator.