Vocabulary : Ad libitum to Adamant

Ad libitum : At one's pleasure; as one wishes.
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.
Adact : To compel; to drive.
Adactyl : Alt. of Adactylous
Adactylous : Without fingers or without toes. ;; Without claws on the feet (of crustaceous animals).

Adage : An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb.
Adagial : Pertaining to an adage; proverbial.
Adagio : Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow. ;; A piece of music in adagio time; a slow movement; as, an adagio of Haydn.
Adam : The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race. ;; "Original sin;" human frailty.
Adamant : 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. ;; Lodestone; magnet.

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