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Heaped up; tending to heap up.

Cup-shaped; saucer-shaped; acetabuliform.

The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda.

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

el; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.

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.

Needle-shaped; acicular.

Shaped like a needle.

Scimeter-shaped; as, an acinaciform leaf.

Topped up; having one yardarm higher than the other.

A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.

One of the sessile cirripeds; a barnacle of the genus Balanus. See Barnacle.

ph 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.

One of the small pedestals, for statues or other ornaments, placed on the apex and at the basal angles of a pediment. Acroteria are also sometimes placed upon the gables in Gothic architecture. J. H. Parker.

er. Taylor. Industry doth beget by producing good habits, and facility of acting things expedient for us to do. Barrow. Uplifted hands that at convenient times Could act extortion and the worst of crimes. Cowper.

"Original sin;" human frailty. And whipped the offending Adam out of him. Shak. Adam's ale, water. [Coll.] -- Adam's apple.

Shaped like a gland; adenoid. Dunglison.

n his own account. A bill of adventure (Com.), a writing setting forth that the goods shipped are at the owner's risk.

Proper to be advised or to be done; expedient; prudent. Some judge it advisable for a man to account with his heart every day. South.

The quality of being advisable or expedient; expediency; advisability.