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The faculty to which the phrenologists attribute the desire of acquiring and possessing. Combe.

Possessing acres or landed property; -- used in composition; as, large-acred men.

Causing heat and irritation; corrosive; as, acrid secretions.

Increasing by growth from the extremity; as, an acrogenous plant.

Rising at sunset and setting at sunrise, as a star; -- opposed to cosmical.

In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vise versâ.

A formal solemn writing, expressing that something has been done. Abbott.

One of the radial segments composing the body of one of the Coelenterata.

Pertaining to, or causing the production of, sound by means of the actinic, or ultraviolet, rays; as, actinophonic phenomena.

A group of Coelenterata, comprising the Anthozoa Ctenophora. The sea anemone, or actinia, is a familiar example.

Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to Ant: passive, that receives; as, certain active principles; the powers of the mind.

ve; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey.

Involving or comprising action; active. [Obs.] Her walking and other actual performances. Shak. Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is . . . by a special prayer or action, . . . given to God. Jer. Taylor.

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. Simpson.

Having nice discernment; perceiving or using minute distinctions; penetrating; clever; shrewd; -- opposed to Ant: dull or Ant: stupid; as, an acute observer; acute remarks, or reasoning.

One of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies.

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. Dana.

A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon this causes exclusively. It is usually fatal.…

re or make ready. [Obs.] His foe was soon addressed. Spenser. Turnus addressed his men to single fight. Dryden. The five foolish virgins addressed themselves at the noise of the bridegroom's coming. Jer. Taylor.

The act of addressing or directing one's course. [Rare & Obs.] Chapman.