Acture (n.) Action.
Acturience (n.) Tendency or impulse to act.
Acuate (v. t.) To sharpen; to make pungent; to quicken.
Acuate (a.) Sharpened; sharp-pointed.
Acuation (n.) Act of sharpening.
Acuition (n.) The act of sharpening.
Acuity (n.) Sharpness or acuteness, as of a needle, wit, etc.
Aculeate (a.) Having a sting; covered with prickles; sharp like a prickle.
Aculeate (a.) Having prickles, or sharp points; beset with prickles.
Aculeate (a.) Severe or stinging; incisive.
Aculeated (a.) Having a sharp point; armed with prickles; prickly; aculeate.
Aculeiform (a.) Like a prickle.
Aculeolate (a.) Having small prickles or sharp points.
Aculeous (a.) Aculeate.
Aculei (pl. ) of Aculeus
Aculeus (n.) A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses.
Aculeus (n.) A sting.
Acumen (n.) Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination.
Acuminate (a.) Tapering to a point; pointed; as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc.
Acuminate (v. t.) To render sharp or keen.
Acuminate (v. i.) To end in, or come to, a sharp point.
Acumination (n.) A sharpening; termination in a sharp point; a tapering point.
Acuminose (a.) Terminating in a flat, narrow end.
Acuminous (a.) Characterized by acumen; keen.
Acupressure (n.) A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface.
Acupuncturation (n.) See Acupuncture.
Acupuncture (n.) Pricking with a needle; a needle prick.
Acupuncture (n.) The insertion of needles into the living tissues for remedial purposes.
Acupuncture (v. t.) To treat with acupuncture.
Acustumaunce (n.) See Accustomance.
Acutangular (a.) Acute-angled.
Acute (a.) Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed; -- opposed to blunt or obtuse; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf.
Acute (a.) Having nice discernment; perceiving or using minute distinctions; penetrating; clever; shrewd; -- opposed to dull or stupid; as, an acute observer; acute remarks, or reasoning.
Acute (a.) Having nice or quick sensibility; susceptible to slight impressions; acting keenly on the senses; sharp; keen; intense; as, a man of acute eyesight, hearing, or feeling; acute pain or pleasure.
Acute (a.) High, or shrill, in respect to some other sound; -- opposed to grave or low; as, an acute tone or accent.
Acute (a.) Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; -- opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease.
Acute (v. t.) To give an acute sound to; as, he acutes his rising inflection too much.
Acute-angled (a.) Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle.
Acutely (adv.) In an acute manner; sharply; keenly; with nice discrimination.
Acuteness (n.) The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle.
Acuteness (n.) The faculty of nice discernment or perception; acumen; keenness; sharpness; sensitiveness; -- applied to the senses, or the understanding. By acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or slight impressions: by acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions.
Acuteness (n.) Shrillness; high pitch; -- said of sounds.
Acuteness (n.) Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.
Acutifoliate (a.) Having sharp-pointed leaves.
Acutilobate (a.) Having acute lobes, as some leaves.
Ad- () As a prefix ad- assumes the forms ac-, af-, ag-, al-, an-, ap-, ar-, as-, at-, assimilating the d with the first letter of the word to which ad- is prefixed. It remains unchanged before vowels, and before d, h, j, m, v. Examples: adduce, adhere, adjacent, admit, advent, accord, affect, aggregate, allude, annex, appear, etc. It becomes ac- before qu, as in acquiesce.
Adact (v. t.) To compel; to drive.
Adactyl (a.) Alt. of Adactylous
Adactylous (a.) Without fingers or without toes.
Adactylous (a.) Without claws on the feet (of crustaceous animals).
Adage (n.) An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb.
Adagial (a.) Pertaining to an adage; proverbial.
Adagio (a. & adv.) Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow.
Adagio (n.) A piece of music in adagio time; a slow movement; as, an adagio of Haydn.
Adam (n.) The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race.
Adam (n.) "Original sin;" human frailty.
Adamant (n.) A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.
Adamant (n.) Lodestone; magnet.
Adamantean (a.) Of adamant; hard as adamant.
Adamantine (a.) Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.
Adamantine (a.) Like the diamond in hardness or luster.
Adambulacral (a.) Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish.
Adamic (a.) Alt. of Adamical
Adamical (a.) Of or pertaining to Adam, or resembling him.
Adamite (n.) A descendant of Adam; a human being.
Adamite (n.) One of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies.
Adam's apple () See under Adam.
Adance (adv.) Dancing.
Adangle (adv.) Dangling.
Adansonia (n.) A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth.
Adapt (a.) Fitted; suited.
Adapted (imp. & p. p.) of Adapt
Adapting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adapt
Adapt (v. t.) To make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as to fit for a new use; -- sometimes followed by to or for.
Adaptability (n.) Alt. of Adaptableness
Adaptableness (n.) The quality of being adaptable; suitableness.
Adaptable (a.) Capable of being adapted.
Adaptation (n.) The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness.
Adaptation (n.) The result of adapting; an adapted form.
Adaptative (a.) Adaptive.
Adaptedness (n.) The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.
Adapter (n.) One who adapts.
Adapter (n.) A connecting tube; an adopter.
Adaption (n.) Adaptation.
Adaptive (a.) Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting.
Adaptiveness (n.) The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.
Adaptly (adv.) In a suitable manner.
Adaptness (n.) Adaptedness.
Adaptorial (a.) Adaptive.
Adar (n.) The twelfth month of the Hebrew ecclesiastical year, and the sixth of the civil. It corresponded nearly with March.
Adarce (n.) A saltish concretion on reeds and grass in marshy grounds in Galatia. It is soft and porous, and was formerly used for cleansing the skin from freckles and tetters, and also in leprosy.
Adatis (n.) A fine cotton cloth of India.
Adaunt (v. t.) To daunt; to subdue; to mitigate.
Adaw (v. t.) To subdue; to daunt.
Adaw (v. t. & i.) To awaken; to arouse.
Adays (adv.) By day, or every day; in the daytime.
Ad captandum () A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor.
Added (imp. & p. p.) of Add
Adding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Add
Add (v. t.) To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).