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noun

Adam n.

The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race.

(As a symbol) "Original sin;" human frailty. "And whipped the offending Adam out of him."

Adam's ale, water. (Coll.)

Adam's apple.

(Bot.)

(a)

A species of banana (Musa paradisiaca). It attains a height of twenty feet or more.

(b)

A species of lime (Citris limetta).

The projection formed by the thyroid cartilage in the neck. It is particularly prominent in males, and is so called from a notion that it was caused by the forbidden fruit (an apple) sticking in the throat of our first parent.

Adam's flannel (Bot.), the mullein (Verbascum thapsus).

Adam's needle (Bot.), the popular name of a genus (Yucca) of liliaceous plants.

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Etymology of 'Adam'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Adam" Quotes from Famous Books

... be common, and that there be no villains nor gentlemen, but that we may be all united together, and that the lords be no greater masters than we be. What have we deserved, or why should we be kept thus in servage? We be all come from one father and one mother, Adam and Eve: whereby can they say or shew that they be greater lords than we be, saving by that they cause us to win and labour for that they dispend? They are clothed in velvet and camlet furred with grise, and we be vestured with poor cloth: they have their wines, spices and good ...

— Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) • Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed

... shadowed forth the choirs of spirits, the trailing voices and their thrilling songs, phantasmal Demorgorgon, and the charioted Hour. Prometheus, too, with his "flowing limbs," has just Blake's fault of impersonation—the touch of unreality in that painter's Adam. ...

— Percy Bysshe Shelley • John Addington Symonds

... of this year, mentioned to Adam Smith as a late publication Lord Monboddo's Origin and Progress of Language:—'It contains all the absurdity and malignity which I suspected; but is writ with more ingenuity and in a better style than I looked for.' ...

— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill

... the Shepherds' Trophy which was heartily applauded. He touched on the Black Killer, and said he had a remedy to propose: that Th' Owd Un should be set upon the criminal's track—a suggestion which was received with enthusiasm, while M'Adam's cackling laugh could be ...

— Bob, Son of Battle • Alfred Ollivant

... I suffer him to fill my mind with suspicions that embitter it against all approaches? Why should I seal my soul away in endless gloom, because one man, out of all Adam's race, was faithless ...

— Miriam Monfort - A Novel • Catherine A. Warfield

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