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The act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated. [R.] Caldwell.

An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment. "To stand high in your account." Shak.

h process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.

Materia medica; the science of remedies.

A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract no friendship, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man. Sir W. Jones.…

To move to action; to actuate; to animate. [Obs.] Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul. Pope.

Something actually received; real, as distinct from estimated, receipts. [Cant] The accounts of revenues supplied . . . were not real receipts: not, in financial language, "actuals," but only Egyptian budget estimates. Fortnightly Review.

The action of sticking; the state of being attached; intimate union; as the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like.

of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love, or reverence; to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape. Admired as heroes and as gods obeyed. Pope.

Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.

An illegitimate child. [R.]

One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second Adventists. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

A material object (vaguely designated). A certain affair of fine red cloth much worn and faded. Hawthorne.

roduce an effect or change upon. As might affect the earth with cold heat. Milton. The climate affected their health and spirits. Macaulay.

To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another.

ant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper…

Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc. See Agglutination, 2.

To bring, or tend to bring, to a uniform grade, or slope, by addition of material; as, streams aggrade their beds by depositing sediment.

Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike. "An airy spirit." Shak.

Supplying food; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap.