[L., = fluid fat, grease.] Animal fat, lard.
1657. Phys. Dict., Adeps, fatness.
1683. Salmon, Doron Med., I. 271. If you desire the Adeps rather than the Spirit.
1836–9. Todd, Cycl. Anat. & Phys., II. 817/2. The texture of the glutaeus minimus resembled adeps more than healthy muscular fibre.
