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Lacking, or deficient in, color; as, achromatous blood.

the auditory duct, or external passage of the ear. -- Acoustic telegraph, a telegraph making audible signals; a telephone. -- Acoustic vessels, brazen tubes or vessels, shaped like a bell, used in ancient theaters to propel the voices of the actors, so as to render them audible to a great distance.

In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; -- opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct; as, active laws; active hostilities; an active volcano.

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 making actual or really existent. [R.] Emerson.

Pricking with a needle; a needle prick. Specifically (Med.):

, and is so called from a notion that it was caused by the forbidden fruit (an apple) sticking in the throat of our first parent. -- Adam's flannel (Bot.), the mullein (Verbascum thapsus). -- Adam's needle (Bot.), the popular name of a genus (Yucca) of liliaceous plants.

th pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. D. C. Eaton.

add to, to augment; to increase; as, it adds to our anxiety. "I will add to your yoke." 1 Kings xii. 14.

Tending to add; making some addition. [R.] Arbuthnot.

our orders to address the senate Addison. The representatives of the nation addressed the king. Swift.

The revocation or taking away of a grant donation, legacy, or the like. Bouvier.

The act of equalizing; act or result of making adequate; an equivalent. [Obs.] Bp. Barlow.

Sticking; clinging; adhering. Pope.

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.

rminates in the reunion of divided parts without suppuration. -- Adhesive plaster, a sticking; a plaster containing resin, wax, litharge, and olive oil.

The quality of sticking or adhering; stickiness; tenacity of union.

Adieu; farewell; good-by; -- chiefly used among Spanish- speaking people.

verb, or may be omitted. Both Houses declared that they could admit of no treaty with the king. Hume.

trance; reception. To gain admittance into the house. South. He desires admittance to the king. Dryden. To give admittance to a thought of fear. Shak.