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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Immemorial :: Immemorial (a.) Extending beyond the reach of memory, record, or tradition; indefinitely ancient; as, existing from time immemorial..
Mistradition :: Mistradition (n.) A wrong tradition.
Extradited :: Extradited (imp. & p. p.) of Extradit.
Extradition :: Extradition (n.) The surrender or delivery of an alleged criminal by one State or sovereignty to another having jurisdiction to try charge.
Traditionaries :: Traditionaries (pl. ) of Traditionar.
Traditional :: Traditional (a.) Observant of tradition; attached to old customs; old-fashioned.
Sunniah :: Sunna (n.) A collection of traditions received by the orthodox Mohammedans as of equal authority with the Koran.
Traditionary :: Traditionary (a.) Traditional.
Conventional :: Conventional (a.) Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules..
Vanadite :: Vanadite (n.) A salt of vanadious acid, analogous to a nitrite or a phosphite..
Alcoranist :: Alcoranist (n.) One who adheres to the letter of the Koran, rejecting all traditions..
Scribe :: Scribe (n.) A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
Extraditable :: Extraditable (a.) Making liable to extradition; as, extraditable offenses..
Judas-colored :: Judas-colored (a.) Red; -- from a tradition that Judas Iscariot had red hair and beard.
Traditioner :: Traditioner (n.) Alt. of Traditionis.
Traditive :: Traditive (a.) Transmitted or transmissible from father to son, or from age, by oral communication; traditional..
Heading :: Heading (n.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift..
Rabbinist :: Rabbinist (n.) One among the Jews who adhered to the Talmud and the traditions of the rabbins, in opposition to the Karaites, who rejected the traditions..
Extradite :: Extradite (v. t.) To deliver up by one government to another, as a fugitive from justice. See Extradition..
Adit :: Adit (n.) Admission; approach; access.
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