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Shaped like a shallow; saucer-shaped; as, an acetabuliform calyx. Gray.

Sour like vinegar; acetous.

One of the needlelike or bristlelike spines or prickles of some animals and plants; also, a needlelike crystal.

Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needless. A*cic"u*lar*ly, adv.

The process of coating the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling.

Shaped like a needle.

Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them.

Having the form of a cluster of grapes; clustered like grapes.

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

king 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.

Pertaining to, or like, an acrolith.

Having a radiated form, like a sea anemone.

Having a sting; covered with prickles; sharp like a prickle.

Like a prickle.

ch has obtained credit by long use; a proverb. Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i' the adage. Shak.

Like the diamond in hardness or luster.

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

Applied to sexual zooids of hydroids, that have a saclike form and do not become free; -- opposed to phanerocodonic.

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

Shaped like a gland; adenoid. Dunglison.