Like cherub, Adam also was a Babylonian word

It has the general sense of "man," and is used in this sense both in Hebrew and in A yrian. But as in Hebrew it has come Babylonian legends, the "Adamites" to be the proper name of the first man, so, too, in the old were "the white race" of Semitic descent, who stood in marked contrast to "the black heads" or Accadians of primitive Babylonia. Sayce, Anc. Monuments, p. 2. A character in Shakspere's "As you Like it," an old and faithful servant of Oliver, but following the fortunes of Orlando. There is a tradition that Shakspere himself acted this part. Adam, Master or Maître. See Billaut , Adam . Adam. A city of Palestine mentioned in the 3d chapter of Joshua. Juliette Lamber, and Comte Paul Vasili. Adams, Henry scenes, son of Albrecht Adam. field. Population (1890), 9,213. Adam. Adam (ä'däm), Melchior. Born at Grottkau, Silesia, 1551: died 1622. A German Protestant divine and biographer, author of "Vitæ Ger- manorum Philosophorum," etc. Adam (ä-don'), Quirin François Lucien. Born at Nancy, May 31, 1833. A French mag is- trate and philologist, noted for researches on American and other languages. Adam (ad'am), Robert. Born at Kirkcaldy, Scotland, 1728: died at London, March 3, 1792. A noted Scottish architect and landscape-pain- ter. See Adelphi . Adam, William. Born at Mary burgh, Kinro , Scotland, Aug. 2, 1751: died at Edinburgh, Feb. 17, 1839. A British lawyer and politician, one of the managers of the impeachment of Warren Hastings, 1788, and chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, 1806. Adam, William Patrick. Born Sept. 14, 1823: died at Ootacamund, India, May 24, 1881. A British politician, whip of the Liberal party from 1874 to 1880, and governor of Madras from 1880 till his death. Adam Bede (ad'am bed). A novel by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) published in 1859. See Bede , Adam . Adam Bell, Clym of the Cloughe, and Wyl- lyam of Cloudeslee. An old ballad printed by William Copland about 1550, and in the collec- tions of Percy and Ritson. Child repeats it from Ritson with some variations from an edition older than Copland's recovered by Payne Collier. See Bell Adam . Adam Cupid. A nickname of Cupid in Shak- spere's "Romeo and Juliet" (ii. 1). Some com- mentators quartos (2-5) contend and folios that the have name "Abraham"), should be "Abram a corruption (the following extract.