Search the Dictionary

Same as Acerose.

Pertaining to a heap. [Obs.]

To heap up. [Obs.]

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

Heaped up; tending to heap up.

Full of heaps. [R.] Bailey.

Resembling little heaps.

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

Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour. Faraday.

An acetabulum; or about one eighth of a pint. [Obs.] Holland.

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.

Furnished with fleshy cups for adhering to bodies, as cuttlefish, etc.

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

One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals.

A limpid, colorless, inflammable liquid from the slow oxidation of alcohol under the influence of platinum black.

Acetic aldehyde. See Aldehyde.

A white crystalline solid, from ammonia by replacement of an equivalent of hydrogen by acetyl.

A compound of aniline with acetyl, used to allay fever or pain; -- called also antifebrine.

Used in salads; as, acetarious plants.