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A representation, in sculpture or on medals, of people expressing joy. Acclamation medals are those on which laudatory acclamations are recorded. Elmes.

A brace used to join two or more staves.

e, whether a principal or an accessory. "And thou, the cursed accomplice of his treason." Johnson.

To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. [Obs.] "So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea." Fuller.

To join; to couple. [R.] The Englishmen accoupled themselves with the Frenchmen. Hall.

ery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize. And the city shall be accursed. Josh. vi. 17. Thro' you, my life will be accurst. Tennyson.

Hence: A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot. I 'll not wag an ace further. Dryden. To bate an ace, to make the least abatement. [Obs.] -- Within an ace of, very near; on the point of. W. Irving.

A heaping up; accumulation. [R.] Johnson.

ty of being acescent; the process of acetous fermentation; a moderate degree of sourness. Johnson.

To recognize. [Obs.] "You will not be acknown, sir." B. Jonson.

Mature age; full bloom of life. B. Jonson.

One who attends; an assistant. "With such chiefs, and with James and John as acolytes." Motley.

Being without joints; jointless.

tance with him. Contract no friendship, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man. Sir W. Jones.

s or severity, as of language or temper; irritating bitterness of disposition or manners. John the Baptist set himself with much acrimony and indignation to baffle this senseless arrogant conceit of theirs. South.

Acridity; pungency joined with heat. [Obs.]

point of (doing). "In act to shoot." Dryden. This woman was taken . . . in the very act. John viii. 4. Act of attainder. (Law) See Attainder. -- Act of bankruptcy (Law), an act of a debtor which renders him liable to be adjudged a bankrupt. -- Act of faith. (Ch. Hist.) See Auto-da-Fé. -- Act of God (Law), an inevit…

A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds; hence, in the plural, equivalent to stocks. [A Gallicism] [Obs.] The Euripus of funds and actions. Burke.

A shareholder in joint-stock company. [Obs.]

used of persons. Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion. Johnson. Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it. Addison.