Geography, a district of Abyssinia, near the province of Walduuba, containing several considerable villages, that are inhabited by Mahometans; who by their number and strength contribute to the safety of the monks in that part of the country. It is so called from Adama, which in the Amharic dialect signifies pleasant, the name of an adjacent mountain. The river Anzo runs in a contiguous valley. (Bruce's Travels, vol. iii. p. 179.)

Adamite earth, a name given to common red clay, alluding to that species of earth of which the first man is supposed to have been made.

Adamite bone, in Anatomy, a protuberance in the fore-part of the throat, formed by the os hyoides. It is thought to be so called upon a strange conceit, that a piece of the forbidden apple, which Adam ate, stuck by the way, and occasioned it.

Adamites,