Definition of adit

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Adit (n.) An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel..

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Extradition :: Extradition (n.) The surrender or delivery of an alleged criminal by one State or sovereignty to another having jurisdiction to try charge.
Melancholy :: Melancholy (n.) Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.
Tractarian :: Tractarian (n.) One of the writers of the Oxford tracts, called Tracts for the Times, issued during the period 1833-1841, in which series of papers the sacramental system and authority of the Church, and the value of tradition, were brought into prominence. Also, a member of the High Church party, holding generally the principles of the Tractarian writers; a Puseyite..
Vanadite :: Vanadite (n.) A salt of vanadious acid, analogous to a nitrite or a phosphite..
Traditional :: Traditional (a.) Observant of tradition; attached to old customs; old-fashioned.
Tradition :: Tradition (n.) The unwritten or oral delivery of information, opinions, doctrines, practices, rites, and customs, from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any knowledge, opinions, or practice, from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials..
Rabbinism :: Rabbinism (n.) The teachings and traditions of the rabbins.
Surrenderee :: Surrender (n.) The delivery up of fugitives from justice by one government to another, as by a foreign state. See Extradition..
Cabalist :: Cabalist (n.) One versed in the cabala, or the mysteries of Jewish traditions..
Saga :: Saga (n.) A Scandinavian legend, or heroic or mythic tradition, among the Norsemen and kindred people; a northern European popular historical or religious tale of olden time..
Extraditable :: Extraditable (a.) Subject, or liable, to extradition, as a fugitive from justice..
Sough :: Sough (n.) A small drain; an adit.
Requisition :: Requisition (n.) A formal demand made by one state or government upon another for the surrender or extradition of a fugitive from justice.
Tradition :: Tradition (v. t.) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.
Tradition :: Tradition (n.) An unwritten code of law represented to have been given by God to Moses on Sinai.
Traditor :: Traditor (n.) A deliverer; -- a name of infamy given to Christians who delivered the Scriptures, or the goods of the church, to their persecutors to save their lives..
Judas-colored :: Judas-colored (a.) Red; -- from a tradition that Judas Iscariot had red hair and beard.
Extradited :: Extradited (imp. & p. p.) of Extradit.
Militarism :: Militarism (n.) The spirit and traditions of military life.
Nevadite :: Nevadite (n.) A grantitoid variety of rhyolite, common in Nevada..
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