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One who acquires.

The entire upper surface of the foot.

From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river. Dryden. To come across, to come upon or meet incidentally. Freeman. -- To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.

To perform; to execute; to do. [Archaic] That we act our temporal affairs with a desire no greater than our necessity. Jer. Taylor. Industry doth beget by producing good habits, and facility of acting things expedient for us to do. Barrow. Uplifted hands that at convenient times Could act extortion and the worst of cri…

An instrument for measuring the direct heating power of the sun's rays.

The entire body of a coelenterate.

(Anat.) One of the bones at the base of a paired fin of a fish.

e profession it is to calculate for insurance companies the risks and premiums for life, fire, and other insurances.

ving to actuate by the perpetual motion. Johnson. Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it. Addison.

Tendency or impulse to act. [R.] Acturience, or desire of action, in one form or another, whether as restlessness, ennui, dissatisfaction, or the imagination of something desirable. J. Grote.

Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow.

ppend, as a statement; to say further. He added that he would willingly consent to the entire abolition of the tax. Macaulay.

Liquid filth; mire. [Obs.]

To aim; to direct. [Obs.] Chaucer. And this good knight his way with me addrest. Spenser.

The act of addressing or directing one's course. [Rare & Obs.] Chapman.

Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition. Ireland had no adequate champion. De Quincey.

The division or defective coherence of an organ that is usually entire.

To set in order; to array; to attire; to deck, to dress. [Obs.]

Not standing by itself; dependent. Adjective color, a color which requires to be fixed by some mordant or base to give it permanency.

A quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body, judgment in the mind.