Admiralty Islands

a group of| 40 islands, to the N.E. of New Guinea; Basco, the largest of them, being 60 miles in length, and is mountainous, but fruitful, The total area of the islands is 878 square miles. Together with New Britain and some adjoining groups, the greny annexed by Germany, in 1885, and now form part of the Bismarck Archipelago.. Adobe, the name given in southwestern America to sun-dried bricks, and the structures built of them, | Adonai, a Hebrew name for the Supreme Being; a plural form of | Adon, “lord,” combined with the prenoun of the first person. In reading the Scriptures aloud, the Jews pronounce “Adonai” wherever the old pame “Jhvh” is found in the text, and the name Jehovah has risen out of the consonants of “Jhvh,” with the, vowel points of Adonai.. | Adonis, a pheasant’s eye, A genus of plants so called because the red eolor of the species made them look as if they had been stained by the blood of Adonis. It is a beautiful plant, with bright, scarlet flowers, and having very markedly composite leaves, | with linear serments.