See Also: Barton, Clara(dictionary)
Barton, Clara(encyclopedia)
CLARA BARTON Credit Union(finance)
adage(2)(dictionary)
adage(1)(dictionary)
adage(dictionary)
barton(dictionary)
BARTON, old English law(law)
Barton's bandage(medicine)
Barton's fracture(medicine)

adage(2) (iou) and Barton, Clara (oh)


adage(2) (iou)



adage noun1. M16.
[French from Latin adagium, from ad AD- + an early form of aio I say.]
A traditional maxim, a proverb of common experience.
adagial adjective of the Nature of an adage L17.
adagy noun [Latin adagium] an adage M16-M18.

Barton, Clara (oh)



(1821-1912) a US nurse who worked in army camps during the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War. She started the American Red Cross in 1881.