Aden (A`den) , a fortified town on a peninsula in British territory S. of Arabia, 105 m. E. of Bab-el-Mandeb; a coaling and military station, in a climate hot, but healthy.
Population (circa 1900) given as 42,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Adelung, Johann Christoph * Ad`herbal