adagy

[ADAGE.] Ad-am, s. [In Lat. Adamus; Gr. 'Αδάμ )Adam), fr. Heb. אָדָס ) Adam ) = (1) man in general; (2) Spec., Adam, the first man, fr. אָדָם ) adam ) = to be red. Cognate with these are אֲדָמָה ) adam ah ) = the ground ( edom ( and ( odem ) = the ruby or sardine stone. In Gen. ii. 7, it is stated that God formed man )אֶת־הָאָדָם, eth - ha - adam = the man) of dust )מִןהָאֲדָמָה min - ha - adam ah = from the ground), as if to suggest that man was made of red earth, or perhaps that his blood (in Heb. dam) remotely resembles the colour of some reddish or brownish-red soils.] 1. Gen. The name given in the Hebrew Scriptures (1) to the human race or man in general; and (2) to Adam, as being the first man and the progenitor of the human race. *2. Technically . Mirthfully : A serjeant, a bailiff, a jailor. "Not that Adam that kept the Paradise, but that Adam that keeps the prison."- Shakesp . Comedy of Errors , iv. 3. Adam and Eve, s . [Adam, see etym.; Eve the first mother of the human race.] *1. Bot . The two tubers of Orchis macu lat a , which, by the fanciful, were held, singly, to resemble the human figure, and, together, to suggest the first parents of our race. ( Craven .) 2. In America : The similar tubers of another orchid, the A plectrum hyemale. It is called also the Putty-plant. It grows in the United States.