(a.) Dexterous in the use of the hands or in the exercise of the mental faculties\; exhibiting skill and readiness in avoiding danger or escaping difficulty; ready in invention or execution; -- applied to persons and to acts; as, an adroit mechanic, an adroit reply.

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