an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally. Alternative to direct curent, DC.

A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals.

A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.

Gum arabic.

An academy.

Academic.

A member of an academy, university, or college.

One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist.

Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy.

In an academical manner.

The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities.

A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts.

the position or state of being a member of an honorary academy.

A tenet of the Academic philosophy.

The doctrines of the Academic philosophy.

An Academic philosopher.

A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.

the French-speaking part of the Canadian Maritime Provinces.

Of or pertaining to Acadia, or Nova Scotia. A native of Acadie.

The cashew tree; also, its fruit. See Cashew. The mahogany tree; also, its timber.

A group of C/lenterata, including the Medus/ or jellyfishes, and hydroids; -- so called from the stinging power they possess. Sometimes called sea nettles.

One of the Acaleph/.

Belonging to or resembling the Acaleph/ or jellyfishes.

Without a calyx, or outer floral envelope.

Same as Acanthus.

A prickle.

Armed with prickles, as a plant.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus.

Having the fruit covered with spines.

A group of intestinal worms, having the proboscis armed with recurved spines.

Having a spiny head, as one of the Acanthocephala.

a genus of Australian elapid snakes.

Spine-bearing.

Having spinous petioles.

A group of teleostean fishes having spiny fins. See Acanthopterygii.

Spiny-winged.

Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch. A spiny-finned fish.

An order of fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch.

Having fins in which the rays are hard and spinelike; spiny-finned.

shaped like a spine or thorn

a family of fishes consisting of the surgeonfishes.

type genus of the family Acanthuridae; doctorfishes.

Having no capsule.

Without a heart; as, an acardiac fetus.

very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants; related to ticks.

the family of arachnids of the order Acarina consisting of mites.

One of a group of arachnids, including the mites and ticks.

The order of Arachnida which includes the mites and ticks. Many species are parasitic, and cause diseases like the itch and mange.

A member of the order Acarina.

Shaped like or resembling a mite.

Having no carpels. Opposite of carpellate.

Not producing fruit; unfruitful.

A genus including many species of small mites.

Not defective; complete; as, an acatalectic verse. A verse which has the complete number of feet and syllables.

Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.

Incapable of being comprehended; incomprehensible.

See Caterer.

See Cates.

Tailless.

Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground.

Same as Acaulescent.

Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest.

The act of acceding.

One who accedes.

Gradually accelerating the movement.

To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.

caused to move faster

The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity; -- opposed to retardation.

Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening.

One who, or that which, accelerates. Also as an adj.; as, accelerator nerves.

Accelerative.

An apparatus for studying the combustion of powder in guns, etc.

An apparatus for measuring the velocity imparted by gunpowder.

To set on fire; to kindle.

Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability.

Capable of being inflamed or kindled; combustible; inflammable.

The act of kindling or the state of being kindled; ignition.

One of the functionaries who light and trim the tapers.

A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.

having the main stress of a word; -- used of syllables

the act of giving special importance or significance to something.

Without accent.

One who sings the leading part; the director or leader.

Capable of being accented.

Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.

The quality of being accentual.

In an accentual manner; in accordance with accent.

To pronounce with an accent or with accents.

Act of accentuating; applications of accent. pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy.

Accepted.

The quality of being acceptable; acceptableness.

Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.

The quality of being acceptable, or suitable to be favorably received; acceptability.

In an acceptable manner; in a manner to please or give satisfaction.

The act of accepting; a receiving what is offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; esp., favorable reception; approval; as, the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc.

Acceptance.

An accepter.

Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable.

In a accepted manner; admittedly.

A person who accepts; a taker.

Gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission.

Acceptation; the received meaning.

Fit for acceptance.

One who accepts one who accepts an order or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.

A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince.

In the manner of an accessary.

The state of being accessary.

One who, not being present, contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense.

The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptibility.

Easy of access or approach; approachable; as, an accessible town or mountain, an accessible person.

In an accessible manner.

A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.

Pertaining to accession; additional.

Additional.

Of or pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt.

In the manner of an accessory; auxiliary.

The state of being accessory, or connected subordinately.

That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate.

A short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; -- used especially in organ music. Now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura.

The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar.