ADATSI, or ADATYS,** in commerce, a muslin or cotton-cloth, very fine and clear, of which the piece is ten French ells long, and three quarters broad. It comes from the East-Indies; and the finest is made at Bengal.

**ADCORDABILIS DENARIUS,** in old law books, signify money paid by the vassal to his lord, upon the felling or exchanging of a feud.

**ADCRESCENTES,** among the Romans, denoted a kind of foldery, entered in the army, but not yet put on duty; from these the standing forces were recruited. See *Accensi*.

**ADDA,** in geography, a river of Switzerland and Italy, which rises in mount Brailio, in the country of the Grisons, and, passing through the Valteline, traverses the lake Como and the Milanese, and falls into the Po, near Cremona.

**ADDEPHAGIA,** in medicine, a term used by some physicians, for gluttony, or a voracious appetite.

**ADDER,** in zoology, a name for the Viper. See *Coluber*.

**Adder-Bolt,** or Adder-flies. See *Libellula*.

**Sea-Adder,** the English name of a species of *Synognathus*.

**Water-Adder,** a name given to the *Coluber Natrix*.

**Adder-biting,** is used in respect of cattle, when stung with any kind of venomous reptiles, as adders, scorpions, &c. or bit by a hedge-hog or shrew.—For the cure of such bites, some use an ointment made of dragon's blood, with a little barley-meal, and the whites of eggs.

**Adder-Wort,** or Snakewood. See *Polygonum*.

**ADDEXTORATES,** in the court of Rome, the pope's mitre-bearers, so called, according to Ducange, because they walk at the Pope's right-hand when he rides to visit the churches.