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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Tetradite :: Tetradite (n.) A person in some way remarkable with regard to the number four, as one born on the fourth day of the month, or one who reverenced four persons in the Godhead..
Traditionally :: Traditionally (adv.) In a traditional manner.
Judas-colored :: Judas-colored (a.) Red; -- from a tradition that Judas Iscariot had red hair and beard.
Tradition :: Tradition (v. t.) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.
Mistradition :: Mistradition (n.) A wrong tradition.
Extraditable :: Extraditable (a.) Subject, or liable, to extradition, as a fugitive from justice..
Puritan :: Puritan (n.) One who, in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts, opposed traditional and formal usages, and advocated simpler forms of faith and worship than those established by law; -- originally, a term of reproach. The Puritans formed the bulk of the early population of New England..
Astyllen :: Astyllen (n.) A small dam to prevent free passage of water in an adit or level.
Thurl :: Thurl (n.) A short communication between adits in a mine.
Traditionalist :: Traditionalist (n.) An advocate of, or believer in, traditionalism; a traditionist..
Cabalist :: Cabalist (n.) One versed in the cabala, or the mysteries of Jewish traditions..
Extradite :: Extradite (v. t.) To deliver up by one government to another, as a fugitive from justice. See Extradition..
Extradition :: Extradition (n.) The surrender or delivery of an alleged criminal by one State or sovereignty to another having jurisdiction to try charge.
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..
Sunniah :: Sunna (n.) A collection of traditions received by the orthodox Mohammedans as of equal authority with the Koran.
Oral :: Oral (a.) Uttered by the mouth, or in words; spoken, not written; verbal; as, oral traditions; oral testimony; oral law..
Lore :: Lore (v. t.) That which is or may be learned or known; the knowledge gained from tradition, books, or experience; often, the whole body of knowledge possessed by a people or class of people, or pertaining to a particular subject; as, the lore of the Egyptians; priestly lore; legal lore; folklore..
Sough :: Sough (n.) A small drain; an adit.
Extraditing :: Extraditing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Extradit.
Traditive :: Traditive (a.) Transmitted or transmissible from father to son, or from age, by oral communication; traditional..
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