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eing acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract no friendship, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man. Sir W. Jones.…

Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with, under Acquaint, v. t.

iring, or that which is acquired; attainment. "Rules for the acquirement of a taste." Addison. His acquirements by industry were . . . enriched and enlarged by many excellent endowments of nature. Hayward.

A person who acquires.

Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring; as, an acquisitive person or disposition.

-- now followed by of before the charge, formerly by from; as, the jury acquitted the prisoner; we acquit a man of evil intentions.

Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating; as, acrid temper, mind, writing. Acrid poison, a poison which irritates, corrodes, or burns the parts to which it is applied.

Of or pertaining to the acromion. Dunglison.

To assume the office or character of; to play; to personate; as, to act the hero.

Capable of being acted. Tennyson.

A supposed metal, said by Phipson to be contained in commercial zinc; -- so called because certain of its compounds are darkened by exposure to light.

A making actual or really existent. [R.] Emerson.

cite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons. Wings, which others were contriving 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.…

A bringing into action; movement. Bp. Pearson.

A sharpening; termination in a sharp point; a tapering point. Bp. Pearson.

sel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface. Simpson.

rewd; -- opposed to Ant: dull or Ant: stupid; as, an acute observer; acute remarks, or reasoning.

d to his [man's] whole nature. Angus. Streets ill adapted for the residence of wealthy persons. Macaulay.

ay of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on). The Lord shall add to me another son. Gen. xxx. 24.

e, to identify him more precisely; as, John Doe, Esq.; Richard Roe, Gent.; Robert Dale, Mason; Thomas Way, of New York; a mark of distinction; a title.