addison

noun

1. Joseph,1672–1719, English essayist and poet.
2. Thomas,1793–1860, English physician.
3. a town in NE Illinois.

noun

1. Joseph. 1672–1719, English essayist and poet who, with Richard Steele, founded The Spectator (1711–14) and contributed most of its essays, including the de Coverley Papers

1. English physician who first described (1849) Addison’s disease and Addison’s anemia.