adam ante ant (ad"amantean)

[L. ada manteus, Chalybean temper'd steel, and frock of mail Adamantean proof. Milton , S. A., 1. 134. adamantine (ad-a-man'tin), a. [L. adam an tin us , adamant .] 1. Made of adamant; having the qualities of adamant; impenetrable. In adamantine chains shall death be bound. Pope , Me iah, 1. 47. Adapis lie at the sides of the ambulacral grooves, and against which the ambulacral o icles abut. See cut under Aste riida.