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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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"Adam" Quotes from Famous Books

... Adam John von Kruzenstern was the first Russian to whom is due the honour of having made a voyage round the world under government auspices and with a ...

— Celebrated Travels and Travellers - Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century • Jules Verne

... "And yet, and yet—Beware! Milton will tell you that even in Paradise serpents found their way to the ear of slumbering innocence. Then, to be sure, poor Eve had no watchful guardian to pace up and down beneath her windows.... And Adam, I suppose—was at Brooks's ... I shall be gone before your hazel ...

— In a Green Shade - A Country Commentary • Maurice Hewlett

... till after marriage, and how are you to avoid committing the fatal blunder? There is only one Being in the universe who can tell you whom to choose, and that is the Lord of Paradise. He made Eve for Adam, and Adam for Eve, and both for each other. Adam had not a large group of women from whom to select his wife, but it is fortunate, judging from some mistakes which she afterward made, that it was ...

— The Wedding Ring - A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those - Contemplating Matrimony • T. De Witt Talmage

... What He sometimes calls your soul.[1] The ceiling of the Sistine chapel at Rome has a fine painting by Michael Angelo from the text, "Man became a living soul." It represents the Supreme Spirit floating in the ether and touching with His finger the body of Adam. As He touches it an electric spark flashes into the body and Adam becomes a living soul. Is not this the centre of the awful mystery that I call "I," myself—the same of which our Lord asks His tremendous question: "What shall it profit a man if he ...

— The Gospel of the Hereafter • J. Paterson-Smyth

... they inhabited the part of the coast opposite to the island of Rugen; and hereabouts Adam of Bremen places the Heveldi, and many other Slavonic tribes.[6] I am not aware that any other author than Alfred says, that the Wilti and Heveldi were the same people; but the fact is probable. The Heveldi ...

— Notes and Queries 1850.02.23 • Various

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