or Adder-flies. See LIBELLULA.

Sea Adder, the English name for a species of SYNGNATHUS.

Water Adder, a name given to the Coluber Natrin. Adder-stung, is used in respect of cattle, when stung by any kind of poisonous reptiles, as adders, scorpions, &c. or bit by a hedgehog 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 Snakeweed. See Polygonum.

Addextratores, 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.

Addice, or Adze, a kind of crooked axe used by shipwrights, carpenters, coopers, &c.

Addicti, in antiquity, a kind of slaves, among the Romans, adjudged to serve some creditor whom they could not otherwise satisfy, and whose slaves they became till they could pay or work out the debt.

Addiction, among the Romans, was the making over goods to another, either by sale or by legal sentence; the goods so delivered were called bona addicta. Debtors were sometimes delivered over in the same manner; and thence called servi addicti.

Addictio in diem, among the Romans, the adjudging a thing to a person for a certain price, unless by such a day the owner, or some other, give more for it.