adjust (ajust)

t. [F. " adjuster, to adjust, set aptly, couch evenly, joyn handsomly, match fitly, dispose orderly, several things together" (Cotgrave), now a juster (= It. aggius tare, aggiostare = Pg. Sp. ajustar ), arrange, dispose, fit, etc., ME. ajusten, adjousten, add, put, suggest), F. ajouter (see adjute ), lit. put side by side, cuts under Lingulidæ and Waldheimia. The dorsal adjustors are fixed to the ventral surface of the peduncle, and are again inserted into the hinge-plate in the smaller valve. The ventral adjustors are considered to pa from the inner extremity of the peduncle and to become attached by one pair of their extremities to the ventral valve, one on each side of and a little behind the expanded base of the divaricators. Encyc . Brit ., IV. 192. adjutage, n . See ajutage , It was, no doubt, disposed with all the adjutancy of definition and division. Burke , Appeal to Old Whigs. adjutant (aj'ö-tant), a. and n. [L. adjutan ( t- ) s, ppr. of adjutare, aid, a ist, freq. of adjuvare, aid: see aid.] I. a. Helping; a istant. Bullokar (1676). [Rare.] II. n. 1. A helper; an a istant; an aid. [Rare.] A fine violin must voice. be the best adjutant to a fine W. Mason, Eng. Church Music, p. 74. 2. Milit., properly, a regimental staff-officer appointed to a ist the commanding officer of a regiment in the discharge of the details of his military duty. The title is also given to officers hav ing similar functions attached to larger or smaller divisions of troops, to garrisons, and to the War Department of the United States government. (See adjutant - general.) Adjutants are also a igned, as in the British army, to divisions of artillery. Formerly, in England, called aid - ma jor. Often contracted to adjt. 3. The adjutant-bird (which see).- Post adju tant, a person holding the office of adjutant with reference to the organization, of whatever character, of the troops stationed at a post, garrison, camp, or cantonment. -Regimental adjutant, a person holding the office of adjutant with reference to a regimental organization, whether the regiment is in one place or dispersed at different stations.