or ADOPTERS.** See Chemistry, (Index.)

**ADAR,** the name of a Hebrew month, answering to the end of February and beginning of March, the 12th of their sacred, and 6th of their civil year. On the 7th day of it, the Jews keep a feast for the death of Moses; on the 13th, they have the feast of Esther; and on the 14th, they celebrate the feast of Purim, for their deliverance from Haman's conspiracy.—As the lunar year, which the Jews followed in their calculations, is shorter than the solar by about 11 days, which at the end of three years makes a month, they then intercalate a 13th month, which they call *Veadar*, or the second Adar.

**ADARCE,** a kind of concreted salts found on reeds and other vegetables, and applied by the ancients as a remedy in several cutaneous diseases.

**ADARCON,** in Jewish antiquity, a gold coin mentioned in scripture, worth about 15s. sterling.

**ADARME,** in commerce, a small weight in Spain, which is also used at Buenos-Aires, and in all Spanish America. It is the 16th part of an ounce, which at Paris is called the demi-gros. But the Spanish ounce is seven per cent lighter than that of Paris. Stephens renders it in English by a *drum*.