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Having no crisis; giving no indications of a crisis; as, acritical symptoms, an acritical abscess.

Color blindness; achromatopsy.

Acridity; pungency joined with heat. [Obs.]

Sharpness; keenness. [Obs.]

Same as Adiaphorist.

A mass of meteoric iron.

A powerful evil jinnee, demon, or monstrous giant.

romptitude; joyous activity; briskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced with alacrity to meet the enemy. I have not that alacrity of spirit, Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have. Shak.

The art of calculating with any species of notation; as, the algorithms of fractions, proportions, surds, etc.

of being other; a being otherwise. [R.] For outness is but the feeling of otherness (alterity) rendered intuitive, or alterity visually represented. Coleridge.

Bitterness. [R.]

The quality of being ambidexas, ambidexterity of argumentation. Sterne. Ignorant I was of the human frame, and of its latent powers, as regarded speed, force, and ambidexterity. De Quincey.

A fossil resin occurring in large masses in New Zealand.

Immorality; also, the nectar conferring immortality. -- a. Ambrosial; immortal.

A yellowish oily volatile liquid, C5H11NO2, used in medicine as a heart stimulant and a vasodilator. The inhalation of its vapor instantly produces flushing of the face.

ces the world and secludes himself, usually for religious reasons; a hermit; a recluse. [Written by some authors anachoret.] Our Savior himself . . . did not choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals. Boyle.

Same as Anchoret.

An anchoress. [R.]

The quality or state of being angular; angularness.

A mineral of a white a slightly bluish color, usually massive. It is anhydrous sulphate of lime, and differs from gypsum in not containing water (whence the name).