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The quality of being acquiescent; acquiescence.

ll, good or bad habits. No virtue is acquired in an instant, but step by step. Barrow. Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his heir at law. Blackstone.

Developing from below towards the apex, or from the circumference towards the center; centripetal; -- said of certain inflorescence.

In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; -- opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct; as, active laws; active hostilities; an active volcano.

hrill, in respect to some other sound; -- opposed to grave or low; as, an acute tone or accent.

A term used to denote a duty or charge laid upon goods, at a certain rate per cent upon their value, as stated in their invoice, - - in opposition to a specific sum upon a given quantity or number; as, an ad valorem duty of twenty per cent.

remains unchanged before vowels, and before d, h, j, m, v. Examples: adduce, adhere, adjacent, admit, advent, accord, affect, aggregate, allude, annex, appear, etc. It becomes ac- before qu, as in acquiesce.

To draw towards a common center or a middle line. Huxley.

Having coalescent or clustered filaments; -- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. Usually in composition; as, monadelphous. Gray.

The state of being adjacent or contiguous; contiguity; as, the adjacency of lands or buildings.

Joining to; contiguous; adjacent; as, an adjoining room. "The adjoining fane." Dryden. Upon the hills adjoining to the city. Shak.

The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness.

A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone.

One who makes much or overmuch of æsthetics. [Recent]

To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to. How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes H. Spencer.

Connection in the way of descent. H. Spencer.

in ship building. African violet African-American, a United States citizen of African descent.

One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note.

The placenta and membranes with which the fetus is connected, and which come away after delivery.

A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceæ) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice…