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One who believes that it is possible to realize a cognition or concept of the absolute. Sir. W. Hamilton.

To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully; as, absorbed in study or the pursuit of wealth.

In a manner as if wholly engrossed or engaged.

Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit. -- Ab*sorb"ing, adv.

Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind; as, absorption in some employment.

ning of the American paleozoic time, and including the oldest American rocks known to be fossiliferous. See Geology. -- Acadian owl (Zoöl.), a small North American owl (Nyctule Acadica); the saw-whet.

uding the Medusæ or jellyfishes, and hydroids; -- so called from the stinging power they possess. Sometimes called sea nettles.

bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner.

The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.

Not possessing a mantle; -- said of certain gastropods.

no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plants which have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc.

To familiarize; to accustom. [Obs.] Evelyn. To be acquainted with, to be possessed of personal knowledge of; to be cognizant of; to be more or less familiar with; to be on terms of social intercourse with.

The act or process of acquiring. The acquisition or loss of a province. Macaulay.

The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.

Possessing acres or landed property; -- used in composition; as, large-acred men.

Having the fruit stalks at the end of a leafy stem, as in certain mosses.

A state of reality or real existence as opposed to a possibility or possible existence. [Obs.] The seeds of plants are not at first in act, but in possibility, what they afterward grow to be. Hooker.

sting in act or reality; really acted or acting; in fact; real; -- opposed to potential, possible, virtual, speculative, coceivable, theoretical, or nominal; as, the actual cost of goods; the actual case under discussion.

Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish.

To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on). The Lord shall add to me another son. Gen. xxx. 24.