King James Bible Dictionary

Large, the sixth month of the civil and the twelfth of the ecclesiastical year of the Jews (Esther 3:7, 13; 8:12; 9:1, 15, 17, 19, 21). It included the days extending from the new moon of our March to the new moon of April. The name was first used after the Captivity. When the season was backward, and the lambs not yet of a paschal size, or the barley not forward enough for abib, then a month called Veadar, i.e., a second Adar, was intercalated.

high; eminent

1. Twelfth month in Jewish calendar
Ezra 6:15; Esther 3:7; Esther 8:12; Esther 9:1

2. Son of Bela
1 Chronicles 8:3

3. See Hazar-Addar
Hazar-Addar

1. (high), a place on the south boundary of Judah. (Joshua 15:3)
2. [MONTH]
3. a city on the Jordan, "beside Zaretan," in the time of Joshua. (Joshua 3:16)

A'DAR, noun a Hebrew month, answering to the latter part of February, and the beginning of March, the 12th of the sacred and 6th of the civil year; so named to become glorious, from the exuberance of vegetation, in that month, in Egypt and Palestine.

ADAR'CE, noun [Gr.]

A saltish concretion on reeds and grass in marshy grounds in Galatia. It is lax and porous, like bastard spunge, and used to clear the skin in leprosy, tetters, etc.

ADAR'CON, noun In Jewish antiquity, a gold coin worth about three dollars and a third, or about fifteen shillings sterling.

ADAR'ME, noun A Spanish weight, the sixteenth of an ounce. The Spanish ounce is seven per cent. Lighter than that of Paris.