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Pertaining to, or resembling, an abyss; bottomless; unending; profound. Geology gives one the same abysmal extent of time that astronomy does of space. Carlyle.

Of or pertaining to Abyssinia. Abyssinian gold, an alloy of 90.74 parts of copper and 8.33 parts of zink. Ure.

Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia. "Acadian farmers." Longfellow. -- n.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the acanthus is the type.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus.

Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest. -- Ac*ca"di*an, n., Ac"cad, n. Sayce.

Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.

Pertaining to accession; additional. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a falcon or hawk; hawklike. Lowell.

Pertaining to, or expressing approval by, acclamation.

Pertaining to accremention.

Pertaining to the accusative case.

Pertaining to, or containing, an accusation; as, an accusatory libel. Grote.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the acephalocysts.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, the maple; as, aceric acid. Ure.

Pertaining to a heap. [Obs.]

Of a pertaining to vinegar; producing vinegar; producing vinegar; as, acetic fermentation.

Of or pertaining to acetone; as, acetonic bodies.

Of or pertaining to Achaia in Greece; also, Grecian. -- n.