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Acidity; sourness.

Something given or done in return for a favor, message, etc. Smollett.

In a cocked or turned up fashion.

Furnished or loaded with acorns.

To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar; -- followed by with. Before a man can speak on any subject, it is necessary to be acquainted with it. Locke. A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Isa. liii. 3.

g; as, acrid temper, mind, writing. Acrid poison, a poison which irritates, corrodes, or burns the parts to which it is applied.

Set or turned back to back.

To prepare 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.

s extended parts of the body; -- opposed to abductor; as, the adductor of the eye, which turns the eye toward the nose. In the bivalve shells, the muscles which close the values of the shell are called adductor muscles. Verrill.

An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.

waves. Also fig. So on the sea shall be set adrift. Dryden. Were from their daily labor turned adrift. Wordsworth.

To burn up. [Obs.] Bacon.

Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt. A tall, thin man, of an adust complexion. Sir W. Scott.

Burnt; adust. [Obs.] Howell.

That may be burnt. [Obs.]

The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried. [Obs.] Harvey.

To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him.

One who is turned against another or others with a design to oppose

A turning towards; attention. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said. I may again advert to the distinction. Owen.