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Adams   /ˈædəmz/   Listen
Adams

noun
1.
American Revolutionary leader and patriot; an organizer of the Boston Tea Party and signer of the Declaration of Independence (1722-1803).  Synonyms: Sam Adams, Samuel Adams.
2.
6th President of the United States; son of John Adams (1767-1848).  Synonyms: John Quincy Adams, President Adams, President John Quincy Adams.
3.
2nd President of the United States (1735-1826).  Synonyms: John Adams, President Adams, President John Adams.
4.
A mountain peak in southwestern Washington in the Cascade Range (12,307 feet high).  Synonym: Mount Adams.



Adam

noun
1.
(Old Testament) in Judeo-Christian mythology; the first man and the husband of Eve and the progenitor of the human race.
2.
Scottish architect who designed many public buildings in England and Scotland (1728-1792).  Synonym: Robert Adam.
3.
Street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine.  Synonyms: cristal, disco biscuit, ecstasy, go, hug drug, X, XTC.



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... juggler, Sir Francis Burdett, in whose pay they have most of them been, directly or indirectly, for many years past. Unable to answer my arguments, and dreading the exposure of their hero's trickery, this gang, with a broad faced, impudent individual, of the name of Adams, a currier, in Drury Lane, at their head, whenever I offered to address them in public, have been always foremost in the cry of, "Hunt, you turned your wife out of doors to starve;" and not satisfied with this, these ...
— Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. Volume 2 • Henry Hunt

... affairs during the existence of the contest; but now, a resolution was offered, recommending generally to such colonies as had not already established them, the adoption of governments adequate to the exigency. Mr. John Adams, Mr. Rutledge, and Mr. Richard Henry Lee, all zealous advocates for independence, were appointed a committee, to prepare a proper preamble to the resolution. The report of these gentlemen was ...
— The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 (of 5) • John Marshall

... wash. Dew Early witness and dew. Flower beds Dew and flowers. Took a bouquet Flowers and bouquet. Date phrase (1707.) Garden Bouquet and garden. Eden The first garden. Adam Juxtaposition of thought. ADAMS Suggestion by sound. Fall Juxtaposition by thought. Failure Fall and failure. Deficit Upon a failure there is usually a deficit. Date word (1801.) Debt The consequence of a deficit. Bonds Debt and bonds. Confederate bonds Suggestion by meaning. Jefferson Davis Juxtaposition ...
— One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed • C. A. Bogardus

... the true Valhalla of Mediocrity, the libra d'oro of the onymi-anonymi, of the never-named authors who exist only in name,—Parson Adams would be here, had he found a printer for his sermons, Mr. Primrose for his tracts on Monogamy,—and not merely such nominum umbroe of the past, but that still stranger class of ancient-moderns, preterite-presents, dead (and something more) as authors, but still to be met with in the ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, No. 20, June, 1859 • Various

... Daddy were aware of what had happened thus in the twinkling of an eye. Certainly neither guessed that another heart, far distant as the crow flies, had felt the stream of his vital, creative thinking, and had thus delicately responded and sent out a sympathetic message of belief. But neither did Adams and Leverrier, measuring the heavens, and calculating through years of labour the delicate interstellar forces, know that each had simultaneously caught Neptune in their net of stars—three thousand million miles away. Had they been 'out,' these two big, patient astronomers, they might have ...
— A Prisoner in Fairyland • Algernon Blackwood


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