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nce to flowers in form and color, they are often called animal flowers and sea anemones. [See Polyp.].

e strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe. Grove. Chose in action. (Law) See Chose. -- Quantity of action (Physics), the product of the mass of a body by the space it runs through, and its velocity.

Applied to a form of the verb; -- opposed to Ant: passive. See Active voice, under Voice.

time being; now exiting; present; as the actual situation of the country. Actual cautery. See under Cautery. -- Actual sin (Theol.), that kind of sin which is done by ourselves in contradistinction to "original sin."

See Acupuncture.

See Accustomance. [Obs.]

See under Adam.

Obs.] A man that waketh of his sleep He may not suddenly well taken keep Upon a thing, ne seen it parfitly Till that he be adawed verily. Chaucer.

A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue.

See Adze. [Obs.] Moxon.

See Affected, 5.

See Affiliated. [Obs.]

See Affiliation. [Obs.]

See Affluxion.

The molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. See Cohesion.

Apt or tending to adhere; clinging. Thomson. Adhesive attraction. (Physics) See Attraction. -- Adhesive inflammation (Surg.), that kind of inflammation which terminates in the reunion of divided parts without suppuration. -- Adhesive plaster, a sticking; a plaster containing resin, wax, litharge, and olive oil.…

t to the highway. "The adjacent forest." B. Jonson. Adjacent or contiguous angle. (Geom.) See Angle.

A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. [R.] See Attendant keys, under Attendant, a.

See Allocution. [Obs.]

The reducing or lands or tenements to mortmain. See Mortmain.