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The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness; acrimony; as, the acridity of a plant, of a speech.

do. Barrow. Uplifted hands that at convenient times Could act extortion and the worst of crimes. Cowper.

Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination. Selden.

In an acute manner; sharply; keenly; with nice discrimination.

An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods.

To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare. Yet they adventured to go back. Bunyan, Discriminations might be adventured. J. Taylor.

ot.), the Scottish bar in Edinburgh. -- Lord advocate (Scot.), the public prosecutor of crimes, and principal crown lawyer. -- Judge advocate. See under Judge.

A flying machine, or a small plane for experiments on flying, which floats in the air only when propelled through it.

To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious; -- with an auxiliary, as can, could, might, etc.; to be able or rich enough. The merchant can afford to trade for smaller profits. Hamilton. He could afford to suffer With those whom he saw suffer. Wordswor…

A sensation or sense impression following the removal of a stimulus producing a primary sensation, and reproducing the primary sensation in positive, negative, or complementary form. The aftersensation may be continuous with the primary sensation or follow it after an interval.

o*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv. All known agamogenetic processes end in a complete return to the primitive stock. Huxley.

The love feast of the primitive Christians, being a meal partaken of in connection with the communion.

ott. The defense made by the prisioner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime. Addison.

al or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.

ong citizens. His Grace's landed possessions are irresistibly inviting to an agrarian experiment. Burke.

ort and worm still. Used also metaphorically. The alembic of a great poet's imagination. Brimley.

The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi.

That which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: sustenance; means of support. Aliments of theiBacon.

The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.

llect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.