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Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts. Elmes.

ce, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry. Specifically: (Mus.)

ture of the calcium salts of acetic and benzoic acids. It is used as a hypnotic under the name of hypnone.

Causing, or connected with, acetification; as, acetous fermentation. Acetous acid, a name formerly given to vinegar.

A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley. [Obs.] Holland.

negative element or radical, either alone, or more generally with oxygen, and take their names from this negative element or radical. Those which contain no oxygen are sometimes called hydracids in distinction from the others which are called oxygen acids or oxacids.

e use of a picture symbol of an object to represent phonetically the initial sound of the name of the object.

e use of a picture symbol of an object to represent phonetically the initial sound of the name of the object.

first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto.

Pertaining to an acroterium; as, ornaments. P. Cyc.

One of the small pedestals, for statues or other ornaments, placed on the apex and at the basal angles of a pediment. Acroteria are also sometimes placed upon the gables in Gothic architecture. J. H. Parker.

is the cause; a performance; a deed. That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. Wordsworth. Hence, in specific uses:

The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race.

A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substance of extreme hardness; but in modern minerology it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his amp…

Of or pertaining to Adam, or resembling him. Adamic earth, a name given to common red clay, from a notion that Adam means red earth.

A title annexed to a man's name, to identify him more precisely; as, John Doe, Esq.; Richard Roe, Gent.; Robert Dale, Mason; Thomas Way, of New York; a mark of distinction; a title.

Direction or superscription of a letter, or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed.

A provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus.

otherhood," or collection of stamens in a bundle; -- used in composition, as in the class names, Monadelphia, Diadelphia, etc.

A word used with a noun, or substantive, to express a quality of the thing named, or something attributed to it, or to limit or define it, or to specify or describe a thing, as distinct from something else. Thus, in phrase, "a wise ruler," wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler.