Adria

[Eng. Adria = the Gulf of Venice (or the sea adjacent, Acts xxvii. 27); fr. Lat. Hadria, a town of the Veneti.] Astron.: An asteroid, the 143rd found. It was discovered at Pola by Palisa, in February, 1575. A-dri-ạn, a. [In Lat. Hadrianus.] [ADRIA.] 1. Pertaining to the Gulf of Venice, or the sea adjacent to it. "When Paul and all his hopes seemed lost, By Adrian billows wildly to ed." McCheyne. 2. Spec . Venetian. "Was Alp, the Adrian renegade!" Byron: Siege of Corinth, 3. IMG:content-0193.png:[blocks in formation] 2. As substantive: The Gulf of Venice.