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The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession. "An acknowledgment of fault." Froude.

Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidæ), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniæ when irritated.

Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with, under Acquaint, v. t.

To quiet. [Obs.] Acquiet his mind from stirring you against your own peace. Sir A. Sherley.

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits. No virtue is acquired in an instant, but step by step. Barrow. Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his hei…

In an active manner; nimbly; briskly; energetically; also, by one's own action; voluntarily, not passively.

Aculeate. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Dangling. Browning.

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.…

A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration.

That which is adjacent.[R.] Sir T. Browne.

A right formerly claimed by the states of the German Empire of joining their own ministers with those of the emperor in public treaties and negotiations to the common interest of the empire. Encyc. Brit.

genial airs. Philips. Justice was administered with an exactness and purity not before known. Macaulay.

most considerable ship of a fleet. Like some mighty admiral, dark and terrible, bearing down upon his antagonist with all his canvas straining to the wind, and all his thunders roaring from his broadsides. E. Everett.

as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess; as, the argument or fact is admitted; he admitted his guilt.

Admissible. Sir T. Browne.

Concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To move or conduct to or toward. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Grown to congenitally.

; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.