Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume AB

Ad·voy"er (?), n. See Avoyer. [Obs.]

Ad·ward" (?), n. Award. [Obs.] Spenser.

Ad`y·na"mi·a (?), n. [NL. adynamia, fr. Gr. ? want of strength; ? priv + ? power, strength.] (Med.) Considerable debility of the vital powers, as in typhoid fever. Dunglison.

Ad`y·nam"ic (?), a. [Cf. F. adynamique. See Adynamy.]

1. (Med.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, debility of the vital powers; weak.

2. (Physics) Characterized by the absence of power or force.

-- Adynamic fevers, malignant or putrid fevers attended with great muscular debility.

A·dyn"a·my (?), n. Adynamia. [R.] Morin.

Ad"y·tum (?), n. Adyta (#). [L., fr. Gr. ?, n., fr. ?, a., not to be entered; α priv. + ? to enter.] The innermost sanctuary or shrine in ancient temples, whence oracles were given. Hence: A private chamber; a sanctum.

Adz, Adze (?), n. [OE. adese, adis, adse, AS. adesa, adese, ax, hatchet.] A carpenter's or cooper's tool, formed with a thin arching blade set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood.

Adz, v. t. To cut with an adz. [R.] Carlyle.

Æ or Ae. A diphthong in the Latin language; used also by the Saxon writers. It answers to the Gr. αι. The Anglo-Saxon short æ was generally replaced by a, the long by e or ee. In derivatives from Latin words with ae, it is mostly superseded by e. For most words found with this initial combination, the reader will therefore search under the letter E.

Æ·cid"i·um (?), n.; pl. Æcidia (?). [NL., dim. of Gr. ? injury.] (Bot.) A form of fruit in the cycle of development of the Rusts or Brands, an order of fungi, formerly considered independent plants.