Adumbrative
foreshadowing; sketchy; faintly indicative.
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- Adummim
adummim the red ones, a place apparently on the road between Jericho and Jerusalem, “on the south side of the torrent” Wady Kelt, looking toward Gilgal, mentioned Josh. 15:7; 18:17. It was nearly half-way between Jerusalem and Jericho, and now bears the name of Tal-at-ed-Dumm. It is supposed to have been the place referred to […]
- Adunc
curved inward; hooked.
- Adust
dried or darkened as by heat. burned; scorched. Archaic. gloomy in appearance or mood. Historical Examples Go, ye Chimeras, with your magnetic vellum; sweet young Chimera, adust middle-aged one! The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle He was tired and adust with long riding; but he did not go home. Romola George Eliot adust, a-dust′, adj. burnt […]
- Aduwa
a town in N Ethiopia: Italians defeated 1896. Historical Examples It is called in Bornou, bitu; and in Haussa, Aduwa and tinku, both tree and fruit. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 James Richardson noun a town in N Ethiopia: Emperor Menelik II defeated the Italians here […]
- Adv.
. . ad valorem. . . . . adversus. . . . . Historical Examples That it really was advertising was shown by the “Adv.” sign, large and plain, in both the papers which carried it. Average Jones Samuel Hopkins Adams Adv.: wsa fengel geatolc gengde, passed on in a stately manner, 1402. Beowulf Unknown […]